{"id":1513,"date":"2004-08-06T16:13:43","date_gmt":"2004-08-06T20:13:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/nateptest\/2004\/08\/06\/bad-news-and-terror-alerts\/"},"modified":"2004-08-06T16:13:43","modified_gmt":"2004-08-06T20:13:43","slug":"bad-news-and-terror-alerts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/2004\/08\/06\/bad-news-and-terror-alerts\/","title":{"rendered":"Bad news and terror alerts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a485'><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/natep\/approvalalertgraph2.jpg\" height=\"433\" width=\"640\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"><\/p>\n<p>Aren&#8217;t statistics fun?&nbsp; What trends do we see here? Any?<\/p>\n<p>And <a href=\"http:\/\/philosoraptor.blogspot.com\/2004_08_01_philosoraptor_archive.html#109175183279165521\">an excellent &#8220;complication<\/a>&#8221;<br \/>\nby Winston Smith, at philosoraptor.&nbsp; &#8220;Complication&#8221; because it shows<br \/>\nthat the story that you think you see may or may not be there, and in<br \/>\nthe social world, it&#8217;s always quite complicated.&nbsp; As he notes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Remember: as terrible as this administration is, and as important as it<br \/>\nis to get them out of office, there are bigger things at stake here.<br \/>\nThe issue of what methods of inquiry and persuasion we allow into our<br \/>\npolitical discourse is bigger even than this election, for decisions<br \/>\nabout this will have repercussions far into the future, affecting not<br \/>\nonly this election, but unknown numbers of future elections.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and the truth.  That&#8217;s at stake too.  Let&#8217;s not forget about that.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aren&#8217;t statistics fun?&nbsp; What trends do we see here? Any? And an excellent &#8220;complication&#8221; by Winston Smith, at philosoraptor.&nbsp; &#8220;Complication&#8221; because it shows that the story that you think you see may or may not be there, and in the social world, it&#8217;s always quite complicated.&nbsp; As he notes: Remember: as terrible as this administration [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":709,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politicks"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5G3PH-op","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/709"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1513\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}