{"id":5652,"date":"2026-01-14T17:58:33","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T22:58:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/?p=5652"},"modified":"2026-01-14T17:58:34","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T22:58:34","slug":"listen-to-me-im-unconvincing-someone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/14\/listen-to-me-im-unconvincing-someone\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Listen to me. I&#8217;m unconvincing.&#8221; -someone"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/goat_roar_by_fbcota.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/goat_roar_by_fbcota.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5653\" srcset=\"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/goat_roar_by_fbcota.jpg 900w, http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/goat_roar_by_fbcota-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/goat_roar_by_fbcota-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>There are always people who complain loudly that they are unconvincing. They won\u2019t say it that way, though. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Instead, they might blame suppression of speech, or a conspiracy, or people being paid-off, or other nonsense. But the truth is simple: their evidence isn\u2019t convincing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Science progresses when scientists produce evidence and persuade each other.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/goat_roar_by_fbcota.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There are always people who complain loudly that they are unconvincing. They won\u2019t say it that way, though. <\/p>\n<p>Instead, they might blame suppression of speech, or a conspiracy, or people being paid-off, or&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/14\/listen-to-me-im-unconvincing-someone\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5653,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5652"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5654,"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5652\/revisions\/5654"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}