{"id":2180,"date":"2010-10-27T12:04:49","date_gmt":"2010-10-27T20:04:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/?p=2180"},"modified":"2010-10-27T12:04:49","modified_gmt":"2010-10-27T20:04:49","slug":"confirmation-bias-at-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/2010\/10\/27\/confirmation-bias-at-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Confirmation bias at work"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/travel\/flights\/2010-10-18-air-marshals-first-class_N.htm\">Airlines tired of flying air marshalls first class anywhere they want for no reason<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2010\/10\/23\/michael-roberts-full-body-scan_n_772819.html\">Pilot refuses full-body scan on grounds that he is not going to hijack his own plane<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2010\/BUSINESS\/10\/26\/BA.U.S.security.ft\/index.html?hpt=T1\">British Airways chairman massages temples, points out that shoe bomb did not actually work<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It&#8217;s nice to finally see a little backlash to TSA securititis coming from inside the airline industry.  If the sheer annoyance of half a billion people couldn&#8217;t change the way Security Theater is conducted, maybe pissy pilots and CEOs will.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Airlines tired of flying air marshalls first class anywhere they want for no reason Pilot refuses full-body scan on grounds that he is not going to hijack his own plane British Airways chairman massages temples, points out that shoe bomb did not actually work It&#8217;s nice to finally see a little backlash to TSA securititis [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,127,119,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-connections","category-derision","category-rebellion","category-travel-and-acronyms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2180"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2181,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2180\/revisions\/2181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}