{"id":52130,"date":"2016-08-26T07:06:22","date_gmt":"2016-08-26T07:06:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=52130"},"modified":"2016-08-26T07:06:22","modified_gmt":"2016-08-26T07:06:22","slug":"mccants-explains-the-saudis-quantico-rebukes-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=52130","title":{"rendered":"McCants explains the Saudis, Quantico rebukes them"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[ by <strong>Charles Cameron<\/strong> &#8212; Saudi-sourced jihadism, the FBI, Baader-Meinhof &#8212; hey, it&#8217;s all about terrosism ]<br \/>\n.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Will McCants<\/strong> explains [upper panel, below] how the Saudis are and are not promoting terrorism &#8212;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Tablet-DQ-600-arsonist.png\" alt=\"Tablet DQ 600 arsonist\" width=\"600\" height=\"873\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-52131\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Tablet-DQ-600-arsonist.png 600w, https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Tablet-DQ-600-arsonist-206x300.png 206w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8212; while a screen-cap from episode 9 in the first season of <strong>Quantico<\/strong> explains just why such an approach is logically bound to be defective.<\/p>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p>Oh well, not to worry. It&#8217;s just another example of the illusion colloquially known as the <strong>Baader-Meinhof phenomenon<\/strong>. I wouldn&#8217;t want to go all irrational on you, so I&#8217;ll let <a href=\"http:\/\/rationalwiki.org\/wiki\/Frequency_illusion\">RationalWiki<\/a> explain:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The frequency illusion (also known as the Baader-Meinhof phenomenon) is the phenomenon in which people who just learn or notice something start seeing it everywhere.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Except that &#8212; well, there it is again &#8212; <em>Baader-Meinhof<\/em> &#8212; it&#8217;s all terrorism!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ by Charles Cameron &#8212; Saudi-sourced jihadism, the FBI, Baader-Meinhof &#8212; hey, it&#8217;s all about terrosism ] . Will McCants explains [upper panel, below] how the Saudis are and are not promoting terrorism &#8212; &#8212; while a screen-cap from episode 9 in the first season of Quantico explains just why such an approach is logically [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[526,24,627,666,873,371,878,784,462,1406,786,211,1005,1,769],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-charles-cameron","category-cognition","category-doublequotes","category-fbi","category-germany","category-humor","category-illusion","category-memory","category-metacognition","category-rational-irrational","category-saudi-arabia","category-terrorism","category-tv","category-uncategorized","category-will-mccants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52130"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52140,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52130\/revisions\/52140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}