{"id":6092,"date":"2020-05-12T23:04:33","date_gmt":"2020-05-12T23:04:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/?p=6092"},"modified":"2023-06-15T20:24:36","modified_gmt":"2023-06-15T20:24:36","slug":"why-we-dont-believe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/why-we-dont-believe\/","title":{"rendered":"Why we don&#8217;t believe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Because <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/news\/q-and-a\/how-to-talk-to-coronavirus-skeptics\">we don&#8217;t want to change our behavior<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  In general, people use experts all the time, and most of us don\u2019t spend a lot of time second-guessing experts on most issues&#8230;The big exception [is when] we reject scientific findings because we don\u2019t like their implications.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because we don&#8217;t want to change our behavior: In general, people use experts all the time, and most of us don\u2019t spend a lot of time second-guessing experts on most issues&#8230;The big exception [is when] we reject scientific findings because we don\u2019t like their implications.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[390,374,378],"tags":[358],"class_list":["post-6092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-decisions","category-mindfulness","category-psychology-2","tag-tagged"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9wjHJ-1Ag","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6092"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6333,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6092\/revisions\/6333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}