{"id":314,"date":"2017-05-30T11:01:42","date_gmt":"2017-05-30T16:01:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonnewstimes.com\/opinion\/?p=314"},"modified":"2020-07-07T11:23:17","modified_gmt":"2020-07-07T16:23:17","slug":"deniers-deny-its-what-they-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/d-a-v-e.org\/washingtonnewstimes.com\/opinion\/index.php\/2017\/05\/30\/deniers-deny-its-what-they-do\/","title":{"rendered":"Deniers Deny\u2014It&#8217;s what they do"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a style=\"box-shadow: none;\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Denialism\"><b>Denialism<\/b>&nbsp;<\/a>is a person&#8217;s choice to&nbsp;deny&nbsp;reality, as a way to avoid a psychologically uncomfortable&nbsp;truth.<\/h5>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The motivations and causes of denialism include religion and self-interest (economic, political, financial) and&nbsp;defense mechanisms&nbsp;meant to protect the psyche of the denialist against mentally disturbing facts and ideas.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"margin-top: 12px;\" src=\"http:\/\/calculator.carbonfootprint.com\/calculator.aspx?tab=4\" width=\"710\" height=\"1300\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A carving of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.toshogu.jp\/english\/shrine\/index.html\" title=\"Three Wise Monkeys\">Three Wise Monkeys<\/a> on the sacred stable at the Nikko Toshogu Shrine complex.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":315,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,39],"tags":[23],"class_list":["post-314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-change","category-truth","tag-health"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/d-a-v-e.org\/washingtonnewstimes.com\/opinion\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/d-a-v-e.org\/washingtonnewstimes.com\/opinion\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/d-a-v-e.org\/washingtonnewstimes.com\/opinion\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d-a-v-e.org\/washingtonnewstimes.com\/opinion\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d-a-v-e.org\/washingtonnewstimes.com\/opinion\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=314"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/d-a-v-e.org\/washingtonnewstimes.com\/opinion\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":462,"href":"https:\/\/d-a-v-e.org\/washingtonnewstimes.com\/opinion\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314\/revisions\/462"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d-a-v-e.org\/washingtonnewstimes.com\/opinion\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/d-a-v-e.org\/washingtonnewstimes.com\/opinion\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d-a-v-e.org\/washingtonnewstimes.com\/opinion\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d-a-v-e.org\/washingtonnewstimes.com\/opinion\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}