{"id":194,"date":"2011-08-29T02:29:45","date_gmt":"2011-08-29T02:29:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/cop17durban\/?p=194"},"modified":"2011-08-29T02:29:45","modified_gmt":"2011-08-29T02:29:45","slug":"doubt-is-our-product","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/cop17durban\/2011\/08\/doubt-is-our-product\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Doubt is our product&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Have public media and journalists contributed to confusion and doubt about climate change? What can\/should they do to present science and scientific debate accurately on this topic?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The general public relies on media and journalists to get all of their information.\u00a0 This information can be relayed to the public in a number of ways.\u00a0 Depending how news is presented, the public forms opinions based on what the media communicates to them.\u00a0 With topics such as climate change, political variance plays a major role in the scientific debate.\u00a0 Because politically focused news broadcasters present information based on the political party of which it supports, these contrasting parties create controversy when spreading accurate information to the public.\u00a0 The science of climate change is not to be debated between divergent parties; the evidence behind the science is what will win the public opinion.\u00a0 As stated in \u201cMerchants of Doubt,\u201d Oreskes and Conway express,<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cWhile the idea of equal time for opposing opinions makes sense in a two-party political system, it does not work for science, because science is not about opinion.\u00a0 It is about evidence.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>When it comes to climate change, articulating facts and evidence behind the science is the only appropriate way to present information.\u00a0 Expending political jargon to relay information is what causes confusion and doubt in the public.\u00a0 When society receives news regarding facts and statistics, they are more likely to form their own public opinion on the matter.\u00a0 Public news sources tend to sway information to their benefit; for a topic like climate change, the evidence is all that matters in the scientific debate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have public media and journalists contributed to confusion and doubt about climate change? What can\/should they do to present science and scientific debate accurately on this topic?<\/p>\n<p>The general public relies on media and journalists to get all of their information.\u00a0 This information can be relayed to the public in a number of ways.\u00a0 Depending how news is presented, the public forms opinions based on what the media communicates to them.\u00a0 With topics such as climate change, political variance plays a major role in the scientific debate.\u00a0 Because politically focused news broadcasters present information based on the political party of which it supports, these contrasting parties create controversy when spreading accurate information to the public.\u00a0 The science of climate change is not to be debated between divergent parties; the evidence behind the science is what will win the public opinion.\u00a0 As stated in \u201cMerchants of Doubt,\u201d Oreskes and Conway express,<br \/>\n\u201cWhile the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":450,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/cop17durban\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/cop17durban\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/cop17durban\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/cop17durban\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/450"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/cop17durban\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/cop17durban\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/cop17durban\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/cop17durban\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/cop17durban\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}