{"id":8893,"date":"2019-10-20T20:52:13","date_gmt":"2019-10-20T20:52:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/socialpanic.org\/?p=8893"},"modified":"2019-10-20T20:52:13","modified_gmt":"2019-10-20T20:52:13","slug":"zohnerism-use-of-a-true-fact-to-lead-an-ignorant-public-to-a-false-conclusion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/2019\/10\/20\/zohnerism-use-of-a-true-fact-to-lead-an-ignorant-public-to-a-false-conclusion\/","title":{"rendered":"Zohnerism: use of a true fact to lead an ignorant public to a false conclusion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nathan Zohner surveyed a group of fellow junior high school students about the dangers of diyhydrogen monoxide. The students overwhelmingly believed\u00a0 diyhydrogen monoxide should be banned by the government.<\/p>\n<p>Diyhdrogen monoxide, of course, is water.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The implications of Nathan&#8217;s research are so disturbing that I&#8217;ve decided to coin a term: &#8220;Zohnerism,&#8221; defined as the use of a true fact to lead a scientifically and mathematically ignorant public to a false conclusion.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/archive\/opinions\/1997\/10\/21\/dihydrogen-monoxide-unrecognized-killer\/ee85631a-c426-42c4-bda7-ed63db993106\/\">DIHYDROGEN MONOXIDE: UNRECOGNIZED KILLER &#8211; The Washington Post<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Much activist and media hysteria is based on using and interpreting true facts in incorrect ways to lead ignorant targets to false conclusions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zohnerism is the &#8220;the use of a true fact to lead a scientifically and mathematically ignorant public to a false conclusion&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>This is a good example of why we must practice &#8220;factfulness&#8221; and verify what we are told daily by media and activist propaganda urging us to adopt someone else&#8217;s agenda.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,17,24,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-assertion","category-facts","category-in-practice","category-propaganda-methods"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8893","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=8893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8893\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}