{"id":729262,"date":"2010-05-18T16:52:33","date_gmt":"2010-05-18T20:52:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/intersection\/?p=8478"},"modified":"2010-05-18T16:52:33","modified_gmt":"2010-05-18T20:52:33","slug":"announcing-my-next-point-of-inquiry-guest-denialism-author-michael-specter-the-intersection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/729262","title":{"rendered":"Announcing My Next Point of Inquiry Guest: Denialism Author Michael Specter | The Intersection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m a bit late in doing this&#8211;I have already interviewed the guy, so you can&#8217;t pose online questions to him as with previous guests. They&#8217;ve already been asked! Still, I&#8217;m psyched that the next guest for the program is New Yorker staff writer, Denialism author, and Daily Show guest Michael Specter. Specter and I happen to have developed a bit of a dynamic\/rapport over the past year, having done a recent panel together at the Cambridge Science Festival, as well as a Bloggingheads.tv episode and a Slate dialogue. Indeed, and as you&#8217;ll see, we&#8217;ve been arguing for some time about the meaning of a famous John Milton quotation&#8230;er, but to say more about that would be giving too much away. And we&#8217;ve also been arguing, in a pretty friendly way, about whether there is anything we can do about American irrationalism, whether the left is more guilty than the right&#8211;and much else. So listen for the show on Friday&#8211;and in the meantime, if you haven&#8217;t already, get yourself a copy of Denialism by clicking the book cover&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/Bw45pfhS105JueJZ-tXSlunOZWc\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/Bw45pfhS105JueJZ-tXSlunOZWc\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap><\/a><br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/Bw45pfhS105JueJZ-tXSlunOZWc\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/Bw45pfhS105JueJZ-tXSlunOZWc\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/DiscoverMag\/~4\/GTjQawObCAk\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m a bit late in doing this&#8211;I have already interviewed the guy, so you can&#8217;t pose online questions to him as with previous guests. They&#8217;ve already been asked! Still, I&#8217;m psyched that the next guest for the program is New Yorker staff writer, Denialism author, and Daily Show guest Michael Specter. Specter and I happen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":657,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-729262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-33Ii","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/657"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=729262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729262\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=729262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=729262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=729262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}