{"id":247030,"date":"2010-01-29T12:40:23","date_gmt":"2010-01-29T17:40:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/?p=10866"},"modified":"2010-01-29T12:40:23","modified_gmt":"2010-01-29T17:40:23","slug":"shorty-award-nominations-end-tonight-bad-astronomy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/247030","title":{"rendered":"Shorty Award nominations end tonight | Bad Astronomy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Shorty Award nomination process ends tonight at midnight Pacific time (08:00 UT Saturday). If you have an existing Twitter account, please help my friend and quack-fighter Rachael Dunlop beat out that alt-med gufru<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/DiscoverMag\/~3\/yyngcq581JM\/#footnote\"><sup>*<\/sup><\/a> Joe Mercola. <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/shortyawards.com\/DrRachie\">You can vote for her here<\/a>, and you can get some backstory <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/2010\/01\/25\/alt-med-purveyors-show-their-true-colors\/\">in this earlier post<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>This is just the nomination process, but it simply makes my heart sing to know that someone who represents actual science and a real defender of health gets the most votes. Thanks.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" name=\"footnote\"><\/a><br \/>\n<br clear=\"all\"><\/p>\n<hr width=\"30%\" align=\"left\">\n<font size=\"-2\"><em>&#8220;Gufru&#8221; = &#8220;guru&#8221; + &#8220;goof&#8221;. This time I checked and found no definition for this word, so I now claim it for my own personal use when referring to someone who claims to be a guru, but is in fact a goofball peddler of nonsense.<\/em><\/font> <\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/6H2VEhKuEqifPfKVmgHfNt546vg\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/6H2VEhKuEqifPfKVmgHfNt546vg\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap><\/a><br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/6H2VEhKuEqifPfKVmgHfNt546vg\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/6H2VEhKuEqifPfKVmgHfNt546vg\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/BadAstronomyBlog\/~4\/H0O7-AnAWsM\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/DiscoverMag\/~4\/yyngcq581JM\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Shorty Award nomination process ends tonight at midnight Pacific time (08:00 UT Saturday). If you have an existing Twitter account, please help my friend and quack-fighter Rachael Dunlop beat out that alt-med gufru* Joe Mercola. You can vote for her here, and you can get some backstory in this earlier post. This is just [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":641,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-247030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/641"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247030\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}