{"id":472448,"date":"2010-03-25T14:00:20","date_gmt":"2010-03-25T18:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/?p=13078"},"modified":"2010-03-25T14:00:20","modified_gmt":"2010-03-25T18:00:20","slug":"i-am-a-skeptic-bad-astronomy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/472448","title":{"rendered":"I Am A Skeptic | Bad Astronomy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Skeptic Magazine&#8217;s website has a new feature I like: short bios of important skeptics.<\/p>\n<p><center><a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.skeptic.com\/i-am-a-skeptic\/Robynn-McCarthy.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/files\/2010\/03\/swoopybanner.jpg\" alt=\"swoopybanner\" title=\"swoopybanner\" width=\"550\" height=\"201\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13079\"\/><\/a><\/center><br clear=\"all\"><\/p>\n<p>Daniel Loxton, the creator of this series, <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/skepticblog.org\/2010\/03\/16\/faces-of-skepticism\/\">also made banners<\/a> to put a face on skepticism. The face featured here is for the tireless and wondrous and totally awesome <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.skeptic.com\/i-am-a-skeptic\/Robynn-McCarthy.html\">Swoopy<\/a><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/DiscoverMag\/~3\/TRXp2sKzq4U\/#swoopnote\"><sup>*<\/sup><\/a>, who runs the Skepticality podcast with Derek Colanduno.<\/p>\n<p>I suspect you might recognize <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.skeptic.com\/i-am-a-skeptic\/George-Hrab.html\">some of the others there<\/a> too. And if you don&#8217;t, get to know them! You&#8217;ll be happy you did. But don&#8217;t believe me. Prove it for yourself.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" name=\"swoopnote\"><br \/>\n<br clear=\"all\"><\/p>\n<hr width=\"30%\" align=\"left\">\n<font size=\"-2\"><em><sup>*<\/sup>MMMMmmmmm, Swooooooopy.<\/em><\/font> <\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/4I3RNUohBHXjoXlzcK4YUBOVmgc\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/4I3RNUohBHXjoXlzcK4YUBOVmgc\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap><\/a><br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/4I3RNUohBHXjoXlzcK4YUBOVmgc\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/4I3RNUohBHXjoXlzcK4YUBOVmgc\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/BadAstronomyBlog\/~4\/aRkgV8UBfmA\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/DiscoverMag\/~4\/TRXp2sKzq4U\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Skeptic Magazine&#8217;s website has a new feature I like: short bios of important skeptics. Daniel Loxton, the creator of this series, also made banners to put a face on skepticism. The face featured here is for the tireless and wondrous and totally awesome Swoopy*, who runs the Skepticality podcast with Derek Colanduno. I suspect you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":641,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-472448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472448","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=472448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472448\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=472448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=472448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=472448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}