{"id":483,"date":"2011-11-05T09:52:57","date_gmt":"2011-11-05T17:52:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leiss.ca\/?p=483"},"modified":"2011-11-05T09:52:57","modified_gmt":"2011-11-05T17:52:57","slug":"hoaxes-and-hobgoblins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leiss.ca\/?p=483","title":{"rendered":"Hoaxes and Hobgoblins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This past September we learned of The University of Calgary\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s embarrassment over the discovery that oil industry funds had been moved through its research accounts to carry out non-research activities dealing with climate change issues.<a title=\"\" href=\"#_ftn1\">[1]<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0 These funds were used to support the activities of a group calling itself, <a href=\"http:\/\/buycialisonlinefree.net\/\" title=\"drugstore\" style=\"text-decoration:none;color:#676c6c\">buy<\/a>  somewhat mischievously, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Friends of Science\u00e2\u20ac\u009d (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.friendsofscience.org\/\">http:\/\/www.friendsofscience.org\/<\/a>).\u00c2\u00a0 Of course one thinks immediately of the old saw:\u00c2\u00a0 \u00e2\u20ac\u0153With friends such as this, who needs enemies\u00e2\u20ac\u009d?\u00c2\u00a0 Is the irony implicit in the name intended or not (the case would be more interesting if it were).<\/p>\n<div>Read full article:\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/leiss.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Hoaxes-and-Hobgoblins.pdf\">Hoaxes and Hobgoblins<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0[PDF]<br clear=\"all\" \/><\/p>\n<hr align=\"left\" size=\"1\" width=\"33%\" \/>\n<div>\n<p><a title=\"\" href=\"#_ftnref1\">[1]<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ucalgary.ca\/news\/sept2011\/friends_of_science\">http:\/\/www.ucalgary.ca\/news\/sept2011\/friends_of_science<\/a>; Vancouver Sun, 09\/15\/11\u00c2\u00a0: <a href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/3dvscdr\">http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/3dvscdr<\/a>; Postmedia News, 09\/16\/11 (Talisman): <a href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/3pvfptv\">http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/3pvfptv<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This past September we learned of The University of Calgary\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s embarrassment over the discovery that oil industry funds had been moved through its research accounts to carry out non-research activities dealing with climate change issues.[1]\u00c2\u00a0 These funds were used to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/leiss.ca\/?p=483\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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":[22],"tags":[39],"class_list":["post-483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-financial-risk"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1GwcM-7N","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leiss.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leiss.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leiss.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leiss.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leiss.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=483"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/leiss.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":485,"href":"https:\/\/leiss.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483\/revisions\/485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leiss.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leiss.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leiss.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}