{"id":8277,"date":"2019-08-14T20:01:06","date_gmt":"2019-08-14T20:01:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/socialpanic.org\/?p=8277"},"modified":"2019-08-14T20:01:06","modified_gmt":"2019-08-14T20:01:06","slug":"fascinating-look-at-how-nearly-nonsensical-belief-systems-become-established","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/2019\/08\/14\/fascinating-look-at-how-nearly-nonsensical-belief-systems-become-established\/","title":{"rendered":"Fascinating look at how nearly nonsensical belief systems become established"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Correlation is not causation:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Almost all of the authors of the British clean eating bestsellers started off as bloggers or Instagrammers, many of them beautiful women in their early 20s who were genuinely convinced that the diets they had invented had cured them of various chronic ailments.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/getpocket.com\/explore\/item\/why-we-fell-for-clean-eating\">Why We Fell for Clean Eating<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Interesting article about how nonsense can become widely adopted as truth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Correlation is not causation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","category-social-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8277\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}