{"id":3366,"date":"2015-05-19T18:17:26","date_gmt":"2015-05-19T23:17:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/?p=3366"},"modified":"2015-05-19T18:18:04","modified_gmt":"2015-05-19T23:18:04","slug":"congrats-to-the-anti-anti-vax-trolls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/2015\/05\/19\/congrats-to-the-anti-anti-vax-trolls\/","title":{"rendered":"Congrats to the anti-anti-vax trolls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tavs.info\/\">Things Anti-Vaxers Say<\/a>\u00a0(TAVS) we have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tavs.info\/2015\/05\/16\/the-anti-vax-troll-list\/\" target=\"_blank\">this\u00a0story<\/a> about\u00a0a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tavs.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/troll.list_.html\" target=\"_blank\">secret list<\/a> allegedly used to ban &#8220;trolls&#8221; who agitate against anti-scientific thinking.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/files\/2012\/11\/joseph-mccarthy-list.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-511 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/files\/2012\/11\/joseph-mccarthy-list.jpg\" alt=\"joseph mccarthy list\" width=\"400\" height=\"305\" srcset=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/files\/2012\/11\/joseph-mccarthy-list.jpg 400w, https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/files\/2012\/11\/joseph-mccarthy-list-300x228.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a> If this is true, it is the funniest thing I&#8217;ve seen all week. I didn&#8217;t think it was possible to outdo\u00a0The Block Bot mods in terms of pointless displays of intellectual balkanization, but I was sorely mistaken. The list contains\u00a0three different\u00a0Novellas, one David Gorski, one\u00a0Tim Farley, one Robert Blaskiewicz, one\u00a0Abbie Smith, and fellow Okie Skeptic James Garrison. Not to mention the entire town of Enid, Oklahoma. (That last one may be a ringer.)<\/p>\n<p>Upon perusing the list, I find myself wondering whether &#8220;ThehammerofThor&#8221; is an actual middle name and whether &#8220;Caleb Lock&#8221; is spelled correctly. If you&#8217;re on the list, hearty congratulations. If not, hey,\u00a0something to shoot for.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over at Things Anti-Vaxers Say\u00a0(TAVS) we have this\u00a0story about\u00a0a secret list allegedly used to ban &#8220;trolls&#8221; who agitate against anti-scientific&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":3308,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-skepticism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3366\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}