{"id":24578,"date":"2022-12-24T15:53:37","date_gmt":"2022-12-24T20:53:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckms.ca\/?p=24578"},"modified":"2022-12-24T15:53:39","modified_gmt":"2022-12-24T20:53:39","slug":"bat-disease-speculation-fails-tests-of-time-and-credible-science-merlin-tuttles-bat-conservation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=24578","title":{"rendered":"Bat Disease Speculation Fails Tests of Time and Credible Science &#8211; Merlin Tuttle&#8217;s Bat Conservation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merlintuttle.org\/bat-disease-speculation-fails-tests-of-time-and-credible-science\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"hoverZoomLink alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/000-3102PZ33-Edit-S.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"277\" height=\"188\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size: inherit;\">Good science attempts to disprove, not prove, hypotheses1. Yet, for more than a decade, a growing number of virologists and epidemiologists have attempted to prove instead of test hypothesized disease threats from bats. Bats make tempting targets because they are found nearly everywhere and are easily sampled and widely feared. Furthermore, sensational speculation linking them [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merlintuttle.org\/bat-disease-speculation-fails-tests-of-time-and-credible-science\/\">Bat Disease Speculation Fails Tests of Time and Credible Science &#8211; Merlin Tuttle&#8217;s Bat Conservation<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good science attempts to disprove, not prove, hypotheses1. Yet, for more than&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[373,169,740],"class_list":["post-24578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-bats","tag-covid-19","tag-pandemic","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24578\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}