{"id":663,"date":"2007-08-15T15:52:48","date_gmt":"2007-08-15T15:52:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/idiolect.truth.posiweb.net\/notes\/?p=663"},"modified":"2007-08-15T15:52:48","modified_gmt":"2007-08-15T15:52:48","slug":"a-primitive-darkness-creepeth-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/2007\/08\/15\/a-primitive-darkness-creepeth-in\/","title":{"rendered":"A primitive darkness creepeth in"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google video of Richard Dawkins railing against the march of unreason <a href=\"http:\/\/video.google.com\/videoplay?docid=8669488783707640763&#038;hl=en-GB\">here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Apart from the cheap and badly written philosophy of science, did you notice how most of this is psychology &#8211; cold reading, the barnum effect, double-blind control trials, probability theory?<\/p>\n<p><b>Update<\/b> Charlie Brooker <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/theguide\/tvradio\/story\/0,,2145125,00.html\">review<\/a> in the Guardian is hilarious<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google video of Richard Dawkins railing against the march of unreason here Apart from the cheap and badly written philosophy of science, did you notice how most of this is psychology &#8211; cold reading, the barnum effect, double-blind control trials, probability theory? Update Charlie Brooker review in the Guardian is hilarious<\/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":[5,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-psychology","category-science"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5KQtW-aH","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663"}],"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=663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}