{"id":221,"date":"2011-09-09T12:27:00","date_gmt":"2011-09-09T12:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/2011\/09\/09\/newsweek-magazine-article-on-my-book\/"},"modified":"2011-09-09T12:27:00","modified_gmt":"2011-09-09T12:27:00","slug":"newsweek-magazine-article-on-my-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/2011\/09\/09\/newsweek-magazine-article-on-my-book\/","title":{"rendered":"Newsweek magazine article on my book&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight:bold\">Philosopher of B.S.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Sep 4, 2011 10:00 AM EDT<\/p>\n<p>British academic Stephen Law is intent on warning people about the perils of bullshit.<\/p>\n<p>First, a credulity test. Do you believe the Bible foretold the assassination of John F. Kennedy? Or that 9\/11 was a Jewish conspiracy? Or that, despite the fossil record, the world is less than 10,000 years old?<\/p>\n<p>If so, the news is bad. Chances are you\u2019ve tumbled into \u201can intellectual black hole,\u201d the favored term of British philosophy professor Stephen Law for a mental accident that\u2019s dangerously common and is \u201ccapable of sucking people in and holding them captive so they become willing slaves of claptrap.\u201d Your wacky belief may seem reasonable to you; be assured, it isn\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p>Now, the good news. Law\u2019s latest work, Believing Bullshit, sets out a spotter\u2019s guide to the standard techniques of intellectual quackery, to help the unwitting among us.<\/p>\n<p>Continues <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/newsweek\/2011\/09\/04\/stephen-law-philosopher-of-believing-bullshit.html\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Philosopher of B.S. Sep 4, 2011 10:00 AM EDT British academic Stephen Law is intent on warning people about the perils of bullshit. First, a credulity test. Do you believe the Bible foretold the assassination of John F. Kennedy? Or that 9\/11 was a Jewish conspiracy? Or that, despite the fossil record, the world is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}