{"id":213,"date":"2007-07-30T23:19:53","date_gmt":"2007-07-31T07:19:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shawnna.wordpress.com\/2007\/07\/30\/are-you-using-the-internet-for-research-hoaxing-as-an-art-form\/"},"modified":"2007-07-30T23:19:53","modified_gmt":"2007-07-31T07:19:53","slug":"are-you-using-the-internet-for-research-hoaxing-as-an-art-form","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shawnna.org\/?p=213","title":{"rendered":"Are you using the internet for research?  Hoaxing as an art form"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you use the internet for researching information, it is important to know exactly what&#8217;s going on &#8216;out there&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps you&#8217;re like I was a little over a year ago &#8211; very naive and idealistic about what I was able to discover using the internet as a research tool.<\/p>\n<p>All too often I&#8217;ve seen otherwise very intelligent individuals adopt some very &#8216;out there&#8217; beliefs based on information they&#8217;ve gleaned from the internet.  And I&#8217;ve wondered why that happens?  Why do otherwise very bright, articulate people adopt beliefs that seem so far removed from reality?<\/p>\n<p>Well&#8230;.   I do believe I&#8217;m beginning to understand more about how this happens.  For a little insight into this, start by reading this tragic tale.  <a href=\"http:\/\/dreamsend.wordpress.com\/2007\/07\/26\/this-is-not-a-game-the-mysterious-death-of-theresa-duncan\/\">The Mysterious Death of Theresa Duncan<\/a><\/p>\n<p>You may find yourself going cross eyed in the first few posts, but stay with it.  Bottom line is there&#8217;s a very prolific subculture out there that uses <strong>hoaxing as an art form<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you use the internet for researching information, it is important to know exactly what&#8217;s going on &#8216;out there&#8217;. Perhaps you&#8217;re like I was a little over a year ago &#8211; very naive and idealistic about what I was able <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/shawnna.org\/?p=213\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shawnna.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shawnna.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shawnna.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shawnna.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shawnna.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shawnna.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shawnna.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shawnna.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shawnna.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}