{"id":12475,"date":"2020-08-04T16:48:20","date_gmt":"2020-08-04T20:48:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=12475"},"modified":"2020-08-04T16:48:20","modified_gmt":"2020-08-04T20:48:20","slug":"quote-for-the-day-242","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=12475","title":{"rendered":"Quote for the day"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>Covid-19 is proving that an unwillingness to listen to doctors and scientists can do great harm. Religious freedom and public health aren\u2019t actually incompatible. But countering the <SPAN style=\"BACKGROUND-COLOR: #a8f2f5\">anti-science bias that has become a stalking horse for the culture wars<\/span> is crucial to creating better policies and allowing citizens to make the best possible choices for themselves and for society.<\/p>\n<p align=\"right\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/outlook\/2020\/08\/04\/spread-covid-19-south-shows-risks-anti-intellectualism\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Laura Ellyn Smith, Washington Post<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The problem with the south is Southern Baptists, who understand clearly that a good education &#8212; especially a science-based education &#8212; is fatal to their bumpkin superstitions, and so they&#8217;ve created and enforced a culture that disdains expertise.  It&#8217;s known as the Bible Belt for a reason.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Covid-19 is proving that an unwillingness to listen to doctors and scientists can do great harm. Religious freedom and public health aren\u2019t actually incompatible. But countering the anti-science bias that has become a stalking horse for the culture wars is &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=12475\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12475"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12475"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12477,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12475\/revisions\/12477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}