{"id":1955,"date":"2017-11-12T14:22:19","date_gmt":"2017-11-12T14:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/control-h.org\/?p=200"},"modified":"2017-11-12T14:22:19","modified_gmt":"2017-11-12T14:22:19","slug":"12-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/2017\/11\/12\/12-2\/","title":{"rendered":"12"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i> Have you ever had a strong belief completely disproven by facts and evidence?<\/i><br \/>\nMaybe it&#8217;s that I don&#8217;t have a lot of strong beliefs, but no.<br \/>\nHave there been things I&#8217;ve changed my conclusion on in light of new evidence?<br \/>\nYes.<br \/>\nThe list of things I&#8217;ve change my mind on is pretty lengthy.<br \/>\nI try to listen especially, to views that differ from mine.<br \/>\nAm I perfect in doing it?  No.<br \/>\nAre there some arguments that I&#8217;ll reject out-of-hand?  Sure.<br \/>\nIf you use Chomsky as your backing evidence, I&#8217;m going to critique it incredibly harshly.  I remember listening to a podcast once where this thirty-something wouldn&#8217;t answer a question because he wasn&#8217;t sure what <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Peoples-History-United-States\/dp\/0060838655' target=\"new\">Zinn<\/a> had said about it.  My neck is still sore from my head shakes months afterwards.<br \/>\nAnd I get sidetracked, stumbling on <a href=\"https:\/\/news.stanford.edu\/news\/2012\/december\/wineburg-historiography-zinn-122012.html\" target-\"new\">this<\/a>.<br \/>\nThere are things that aren&#8217;t worth debating;  maybe the <i>Flat Earth Society<\/i> still exists.  I don&#8217;t care to look.<br \/>\nFor tomorrow:  <i>How do you handle someone being inappropriate?<\/i><br \/>\nI don&#8217;t think this prompt was written recently, but in light of Weinstein, Louis C.K., perhaps the right answer is to move the plant so it obscures the view more&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever had a strong belief completely disproven by facts and evidence? Maybe it&#8217;s that I don&#8217;t have a lot of strong beliefs, but no. Have there been things I&#8217;ve changed my conclusion on in light of new evidence? Yes. The list of things I&#8217;ve change my mind on is pretty lengthy. I try [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[26,36],"class_list":["post-1955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-nojomo","tag-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1955\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}