{"id":533,"date":"2007-11-08T11:55:50","date_gmt":"2007-11-08T15:55:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=533"},"modified":"2007-11-08T16:29:59","modified_gmt":"2007-11-08T20:29:59","slug":"vote-for-real-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=533","title":{"rendered":"Vote for Real Science"},"content":{"rendered":"

A pseudoscience blog called “Climate Audit” is currently in the lead to win a Best Science Blog award because influential conservative sites are asking their readers to vote for it whether they read it or not. It’s a denialist blog that argues humans have no responsibility for global warming and promotes political ideas as “science.”<\/p>\n

You can do your part to offset this tampering by voting for Bad Astronomy<\/A> in the Weblog Awards Best Science Blog Contest<\/A>. You can vote once a day, and are encouraged to exercise that option.<\/p>\n

(via Cognitive Daily<\/A>)<\/I><\/p>\n

Edited to Add:<\/I>
\nFirst, the voting ends today, so ignore that “vote early and often” comment.<\/p>\n

Second, my apologies; I was thinking that Bad Astronomy was over in the O*W*C’s blogroll, and that most of our readers had thus had the opportunity to check out the site. I don’t want to do the very thing I’m criticizing and encourage people who don’t read a blog to vote for it anyway. If you read the site (I hope you do; it’s fun), please vote for it. If you don’t, just pretend this entry is an artifact from some other space-time continuum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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