{"id":1929,"date":"2009-04-28T06:17:10","date_gmt":"2009-04-28T14:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secularright.org\/wordpress\/?p=1929"},"modified":"2009-04-28T06:17:10","modified_gmt":"2009-04-28T14:17:10","slug":"irrationality-watch-among-the-pandemicists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/irrationality-watch-among-the-pandemicists\/","title":{"rendered":"Irrationality watch: Among the pandemicists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There were over <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20090406\/ap_on_go_ot\/highway_deaths\">100 auto fatalities a day <\/a>in the U.S. in 2008, a number that was celebrated for being so low.\u00a0\u00a0 So far, there have been <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/topNews\/idUSTRE53N22820090428?feedType=RSS&amp;feedName=topNews\">no deaths <\/a>from the swine flu outside of Mexico, where 149 fatalities are suspected.\u00a0\u00a0 Is there any hope that we are going to avoid a pandemic overreaction to the disease?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There were over 100 auto fatalities a day in the U.S. in 2008, a number that was celebrated for being so low.\u00a0\u00a0 So far, there have been no deaths from the swine flu outside of Mexico, where 149 fatalities are &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/irrationality-watch-among-the-pandemicists\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[241],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1929"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1929"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1931,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1929\/revisions\/1931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}