{"id":5938,"date":"2014-06-04T22:37:06","date_gmt":"2014-06-04T21:37:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/?p=5938"},"modified":"2014-06-04T22:37:06","modified_gmt":"2014-06-04T21:37:06","slug":"link-to-june-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/2014\/06\/04\/link-to-june-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"link to June 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: solid #BBBBBB 1px; font-size: 11px; background-color: #eeeeee; padding: 0px 7px 0px 7px;\">\n<ul>\n<li>Ben Goldacre: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.badscience.net\/2013\/10\/why-and-how-i-wrote-bad-pharma\/\">Why \u2013 and how \u2013 I wrote Bad Pharma<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.whatdotheyknow.com\/request\/safe_beneath_the_watchful_eyes\">Secure Beneath Watchful Eyes<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidbauer.ch\/2013\/10\/20\/an-unfinished-list-of-ventures-in-journalism-you-should-be-watching-and-why\/\">An unfinished list of ventures in journalism you should be watching (and why) | David Bauer. <\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newstatesman.com\/2013\/10\/defrauding-young-britain\">Danny Dorling: If you are young in Britain today, you are being taken for a ride<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/jacobinmag.com\/2013\/10\/adbusted\/\">&#8216;And by exaggerating the mass media\u2019s ability to zombify the public, jammers could imagine that they, too, had Svengali-like powers over ordinary proles. For all the \u201ctools\u201d Adbusters offered to sway public consciousness \u2013 stencilling, stickering, page defacement, supermarket trolley sabotage \u2013 there was never much emphasis on social skills, on persuading people with politics instead of bombarding them with theater or treating them like hackable machines.&#8217;<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/kenanmalik.wordpress.com\/2012\/03\/04\/why-both-sides-are-wrong-in-the-race-debate\/\">&#8216;Imagine that some nuclear nightmare wiped out the entire human race apart from one small population \u2013 say, the Masai tribe in East Africa. Almost all the genetic variation that exists in the world today would still be present in that one small group.&#8217;<\/a> Kenan Malik on the biology\/construction of race<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/daviddobbs.net\/smoothpebbles\/malcolm-gladwell-and-glenn-beck-get-cozy-in-a-really-strange-brofest\/\">Gladwell talks about faith, unsettling science writers<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/drewphilp\/why-i-bought-a-house-in-detroit-for-500\">the Detroit that\u2019s saving itself<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/news_and_politics\/jurisprudence\/2014\/05\/douglas_laycock_gets_smeared_lgbtq_groups_attack_on_the_university_of_virginia.html\">Chilling Effect: How the attacks on a University of Virginia law professor are bad for academia, and all of us.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ben Goldacre: Why \u2013 and how \u2013 I wrote Bad Pharma Secure Beneath Watchful Eyes An unfinished list of ventures in journalism you should be watching (and why) | David Bauer. Danny Dorling: If you are young in Britain today, you are being taken for a ride &#8216;And by exaggerating the mass media\u2019s ability to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5KQtW-1xM","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5938"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5938"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5983,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5938\/revisions\/5983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}