{"id":3911,"date":"2014-09-28T09:55:36","date_gmt":"2014-09-28T15:55:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lastbestnews.com\/site\/?p=3911"},"modified":"2014-09-28T11:21:23","modified_gmt":"2014-09-28T17:21:23","slug":"so-called-scientists-need-to-get-their-ducks-in-a-row","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/2014\/09\/so-called-scientists-need-to-get-their-ducks-in-a-row\/","title":{"rendered":"So-called scientists need to get their ducks in a row"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I hope you all saw the brilliant letter to the editor in the Gazette this morning. It was a masterpiece \u2014 clever, sarcastic and absolutely irrefutable. And short. So short I&#8217;ll just reprint it, rather than linking to it:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I see the United Nations is backing another summit on climate change. I wish the alarmists would make up their minds. In the 1960s and 1970s, &#8216;science&#8217; determined that man-caused global cooling was about to spell the end of the planet and mankind. For several years now, man-caused global warming is being touted as our doom. Alarmists, which &#8216;scientific&#8217; truth is it? I would really like to know. I&#8217;ve got plans to make!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I salute the writer, Clyde Tippets, of Billings! I so admired his letter that I have written one of my own, which I will send to the Gazette today:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I see that people are talking again about how the Earth revolves around the sun. I wish our &#8216;scientists&#8217; could make up their minds about this. For many centuries, these people solemnly assured us that the Earth was the center of the universe. Now, &#8216;the vast majority of scientists&#8217; are asking to believe in an entirely different concept. Please, gentlemen (and ladies!), let us know which &#8216;truth&#8217; we are supposed to believe.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I hope you all saw the brilliant letter to the editor in the Gazette this morning. It was a masterpiece \u2014 clever, sarcastic and absolutely irrefutable. And short. So short I&#8217;ll just reprint it, rather than linking to it: &#8220;I see the United Nations is backing another summit on climate change. I wish the alarmists [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[1419,1418,1417],"class_list":["post-3911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-clyde-tippets","tag-copernicus","tag-united-nations","prominence-category-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3911\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}