{"id":1583,"date":"2012-04-06T13:49:32","date_gmt":"2012-04-06T17:49:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/?p=1583"},"modified":"2012-04-06T13:49:32","modified_gmt":"2012-04-06T17:49:32","slug":"arguing-that-republicans-arent-science-deniers-s-e-cupp-says-climate-change-is-phony-studies-thinkprogress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/2012\/04\/arguing-that-republicans-arent-science-deniers-s-e-cupp-says-climate-change-is-phony-studies-thinkprogress\/","title":{"rendered":"Arguing That Republicans Aren&#8217;t Science Deniers, S.E. Cupp Says Climate Change Is &#8216;Phony Studies&#8217; | ThinkProgress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Arguing that Republicans don\u2019t reflexively deny scientific facts, conservative MSNBC commentator S.E. Cupp repeated Climategate smears against climate science. Cupp was attacking the premise of author and Science Progress contributor Chris Mooney\u2019s new book, The Republican Brain, which looks at how conservative propaganda and ideological tendencies have led to increasing distrust in science among the American right. Cupp bowled over host Alex Wagner, citing Rick Santorum as her authority that the fact of man-made climate change is \u201ccorrupted\u201d by \u201cphony studies\u201d:<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/green\/2012\/04\/05\/459221\/arguing-that-republicans-arent-science-deniers-se-cupp-says-climate-change-is-phony-studies\/\">Arguing That Republicans Aren&#8217;t Science Deniers, S.E. Cupp Says Climate Change Is &#8216;Phony Studies&#8217; | ThinkProgress<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arguing that Republicans don\u2019t reflexively deny scientific facts, conservative MSNBC commentator S.E. Cupp repeated Climategate smears against climate science. Cupp was attacking the premise of author and Science Progress contributor Chris Mooney\u2019s new book, The Republican Brain, which looks at how conservative propaganda and ideological tendencies have led to increasing distrust in science among the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[257,22],"tags":[267,258,967,292,966],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1583"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1583"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1584,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1583\/revisions\/1584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}