{"id":25980,"date":"2020-07-06T11:14:42","date_gmt":"2020-07-06T10:14:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=25980"},"modified":"2020-07-06T11:17:14","modified_gmt":"2020-07-06T10:17:14","slug":"word-of-the-day-agnotology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=25980","title":{"rendered":"Word of the day: agnotology"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The word was coined over 10 years ago by Stanford University professor Robert N. Proctor,&nbsp;but has new resonance with the advent of Brexit in the UK and Trumpism in the USA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Proctor defines agnotology as:<em> Culturally constructed ignorance, purposefully created by special interest groups working hard to create confusion and suppress the truth.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can find more examples in <a href=\"\nhttps:\/\/ritholtz.com\/2016\/06\/frightening-global-rise-agnotology\/\">this short article<\/a>. I&#8217;m sure you can think of more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The word was coined over 10 years ago by Stanford University professor Robert N. Proctor,&nbsp;but has new resonance with the advent of Brexit in the UK and Trumpism in the USA. Proctor defines agnotology as: Culturally constructed ignorance, purposefully created by special interest groups working hard to create confusion and suppress the truth. You can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cultural-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25980"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25980\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25986,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25980\/revisions\/25986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}