{"id":1784,"date":"2020-11-01T09:17:15","date_gmt":"2020-11-01T09:17:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/?p=1784"},"modified":"2020-11-01T09:17:54","modified_gmt":"2020-11-01T09:17:54","slug":"if-the-truth-hurts-ignore-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/2020\/11\/01\/if-the-truth-hurts-ignore-it\/","title":{"rendered":"If the truth hurts, ignore it"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I heard on BBC radio this morning that IDS thinks the government have given in to scientists over COVID-19. It seems that in the Toryverse, now not only is the UK at war with the rest of Europe, but we&#8217;re at war with truth. It&#8217;s the scientists&#8217; job to tell the government the likely consequences of their decisions, and they&#8217;ve done it in good faith. They don&#8217;t deserve to be maligned for telling the truth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Presumably if the government had stood up to the scientists, then when the COVID-asteroid smacked us in the face, another explanation for the disaster would have been found.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;m going to church this morning &#8211; if a lockdown is worth starting, it&#8217;s worth starting now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I heard on BBC radio this morning that IDS thinks the government have given in to scientists over COVID-19. It seems that in the Toryverse, now not only is the UK at war with the rest of Europe, but we&#8217;re at war with truth. It&#8217;s the scientists&#8217; job to tell the government the likely consequences &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/2020\/11\/01\/if-the-truth-hurts-ignore-it\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;If the truth hurts, ignore it&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1784"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1786,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1784\/revisions\/1786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}