{"id":47,"date":"2005-01-31T17:37:50","date_gmt":"2005-02-01T01:37:50","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2015-10-12T16:02:06","modified_gmt":"2015-10-13T00:02:06","slug":"alarmism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bayesianinvestor.com\/blog\/index.php\/2005\/01\/31\/alarmism\/","title":{"rendered":"Alarmism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week&#8217;s issue of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\">Nature<\/a> has a review of a recent Michael Crichton book (dismissed as &#8220;Viagra for climate sceptics&#8221;) which contains an interesting claim about the reaction to the movie The Day After Tomorrow:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nSurveys of public opinion conducted before and after the film was released found that it made people think climate change is less likely\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Apparently its obvious lack of realism caused people to associate the more respectable claims about global warming with Hollywood escapism.<br \/>\nI wonder if this is the tip of a much larger iceberg. It seems to me that a wide variety of political movements tend to promote the most alarmist versions of their ideas in order to get respect and\/or money from their strongest supporters. I don&#8217;t find it hard to imagine that it is common for activist groups to hurt the causes they claim to be fighting for by sounding unrealistic to swing voters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week&#8217;s issue of Nature has a review of a recent Michael Crichton book (dismissed as &#8220;Viagra for climate sceptics&#8221;) which contains an interesting claim about the reaction to the movie The Day After Tomorrow: Surveys of public opinion conducted before and after the film was released found that it made people think climate change [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[3],"tags":[44,138,38],"class_list":["post-47","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-bias","tag-climate","tag-risks"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s80O1l-alarmism","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bayesianinvestor.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bayesianinvestor.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bayesianinvestor.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bayesianinvestor.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bayesianinvestor.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bayesianinvestor.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":396,"href":"https:\/\/bayesianinvestor.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions\/396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bayesianinvestor.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bayesianinvestor.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bayesianinvestor.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}