{"id":3358,"date":"2014-05-13T22:51:14","date_gmt":"2014-05-14T05:51:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=3358"},"modified":"2018-03-31T18:21:15","modified_gmt":"2018-04-01T01:21:15","slug":"ugggh-fox-say-science-bad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=3358","title":{"rendered":"Ugggh! Fox Say Science Bad!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Those wacky conservatives over at Fox News, a.k.a, Republican Propaganda Network, have really become desperate lately. And rightly so. This week, <a title=\"Part Of West Antarctic Ice Sheet Starting Slow, Unstoppable Collapse, Studies Indicate\" href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2014\/05\/12\/west-antarctic-ice-sheet-melting_n_5310679.html\" target=\"_blank\">two scientific papers have concluded that the glaciers in West Antarctica have now begun to irreversibly collapse<\/a>. Of course, this bit of news contradicts everything Fox pushes concerning climate change. As a matter of fact, if you want accurate scientific news, <a title=\"Fox News climate change coverage is now 28% accurate, up from 7%\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/climate-consensus-97-per-cent\/2014\/apr\/08\/fox-news-28-percent-accurate-climate-change\" target=\"_blank\">Fox would be the last place you&#8217;d probably want to watch according to a recent analysis by the Union of Concerned Scientists<\/a>. But that doesn&#8217;t stop those intrepid &#8216;journalists&#8217; at Fox from spouting off their own business-and-industry-filtered theories concerning science. Why just last week, <a title=\"All Science Is Wrong, Concludes Esteemed Fox News Panel\" href=\"http:\/\/nymag.com\/daily\/intelligencer\/2014\/05\/krauthammer-george-will-attack-climate-science.html\" target=\"_blank\">conservative guru, Charles Krauthammer, waxed poetic about how he thought that science was wrong, especially about climate change<\/a>. Remember the Fox News mantra; if you have to think about it, it can&#8217;t possibly be true.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3360\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3360\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?attachment_id=3360\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3360\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3360\" title=\"foxsciencebad\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/foxsciencebad.jpg\" alt=\"Charles Krauthammer explains that science is bad and Fox News is good while Sean Hannity reminds people of the Fox News mantra.\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/foxsciencebad.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/foxsciencebad-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 85vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3360\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fox contributor, Charles Krauthammer, expounds on his complex theories of climate change and science in general to Fox &#8216;journalist&#8217; Sean Hannity.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Those wacky conservatives over at Fox News, a.k.a, Republican Propaganda Network, have really become desperate lately. And rightly so. This week, two scientific papers have concluded that the glaciers in West Antarctica have now begun to irreversibly collapse. Of course, this bit of news contradicts everything Fox pushes concerning climate change. As a matter of &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=3358\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ugggh! Fox Say Science Bad!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61,60,8,3,1715],"tags":[74,835,22,20,389,27,4,834,9,254,890,21,98,596,19,730,731],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3358"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3358"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5943,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3358\/revisions\/5943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}