{"id":3520,"date":"2012-04-04T11:03:50","date_gmt":"2012-04-04T16:03:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=3520"},"modified":"2012-04-04T11:16:33","modified_gmt":"2012-04-04T16:16:33","slug":"bad-opinions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=3520","title":{"rendered":"Bad opinions"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the category of "general" today we have twenty examples of "bad opinions" from the "bad opinion generator" at "The Week<\/a>."  No argument on their badness.  Only I question whether they're "opinions" or not.  Some, nay most, of them are horrible predictions<\/strong>:<\/p>\n

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"Albert Einstein (the little boy) will never amount to anything." <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Others are just likely false propositions:<\/p>\n

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"This virus [AIDS] is a pussycat."  <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

So maybe it would be helpful to sort these into categories: wrong predictions, wrong evaluations, false propositions, etc.  Categories make lives easier.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the category of "general" today we have twenty examples of "bad opinions" from the "bad opinion generator" at "The Week."  No argument on their badness.  Only I question whether they're "opinions" or not.  Some, nay most, of them are horrible predictions: "Albert Einstein (the little boy) will never amount to anything."  Others are just likely false … Continue reading Bad opinions<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1349,1352,1351,1353,1350],"class_list":["post-3520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-bad-opinion-generator","tag-fact","tag-opinion","tag-prediction","tag-the-week"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3520"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3522,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3520\/revisions\/3522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}