{"id":880,"date":"2008-04-13T09:07:58","date_gmt":"2008-04-13T08:07:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=880"},"modified":"2008-04-13T09:07:58","modified_gmt":"2008-04-13T08:07:58","slug":"knowledge-and-counterknowledge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=880","title":{"rendered":"Knowledge and counterknowledge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve just finished reading an excellent book called &#8220;Counterknowledge&#8221; [my review <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/currentaffairs.html#CK\">here<\/a>]. The term is defined by the author Damian Thompson as follows <i>&#8220;The essence of counterknowledge is that it purports to be knowledge but is <b>not<\/b> knowledge.&#8221;<\/i><br \/>\nThompson&#8217;s targets include Creationism, pseudohistory and complementary medicine.<br \/>\nI identify completely with his trenchant analysis which is reflected in my own essay on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/truth.html\">&#8220;The Reason For Truth&#8221;<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve just finished reading an excellent book called &#8220;Counterknowledge&#8221; [my review here]. The term is defined by the author Damian Thompson as follows &#8220;The essence of counterknowledge is that it purports to be knowledge but is not knowledge.&#8221; Thompson&#8217;s targets include Creationism, pseudohistory and complementary medicine. I identify completely with his trenchant analysis which is [&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-880","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\/880","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=880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/880\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}