{"id":66456,"date":"2015-04-11T09:17:52","date_gmt":"2015-04-11T14:17:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=66456"},"modified":"2015-04-11T14:19:15","modified_gmt":"2015-04-11T19:19:15","slug":"image-of-the-week-what-do-gun-experts-believe-about-guns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2015\/04\/11\/image-of-the-week-what-do-gun-experts-believe-about-guns\/","title":{"rendered":"What Do Gun Experts Believe about Guns?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the face of contentious debate about the value of guns, public health professor <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hsph.harvard.edu\/david-hemenway\/\" target=\"_blank\">David Hemenway<\/a> decided to have the experts weigh in.\u00a0He modeled\u00a0his research on the <a href=\"http:\/\/climate.nasa.gov\/scientific-consensus\/\">study of climate change experts<\/a> that produced the familiar statistic that 97% of them\u00a0believe that humans are causing\u00a0climate change. He\u00a0identified 300 scholars who have published about firearms in the fields of\u00a0public health, public policy, sociology, and criminology. About 100 each have replied to nine surveys asking\u00a0their opinions about common controversial statements.<\/p>\n<p>Here is your\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/m.motherjones.com\/politics\/2015\/04\/gun-research-harvard-nra\" target=\"_blank\">image of the week<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2015\/04\/121.png\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-66457\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2015\/04\/121-480x1024.png\" alt=\"12\" width=\"480\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2015\/04\/121-480x1024.png 480w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2015\/04\/121-422x900.png 422w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2015\/04\/121.png 630w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>At <a href=\"http:\/\/m.motherjones.com\/politics\/2015\/04\/gun-research-harvard-nra\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Mother Jones<\/em><\/a>, Julia Lurie writes: These data &#8220;show that a clear majority of experts do not buy the NRA&#8217;s arguments.&#8221;<\/p>\n<span class=\"ft_signature\"><em><a href=\"http:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/\">Lisa Wade, PhD<\/a> is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/American-Hookup-New-Culture-Campus\/dp\/039328509X?ie=UTF8&amp;*Version*=1&amp;*entries*=0\">American Hookup<\/a><em>, a book about college sexual culture; a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Gender-Interactions-Institutions-Lisa-Wade\/dp\/0393931072?ie=UTF8&amp;*Version*=1&amp;*entries*=0\">textbook about gender<\/a>; and a forthcoming introductory text: <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/intro\/\">Terrible Magnificent Sociology<\/a><em>.\u00a0You can follow her on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lisawade\">Twitter<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/lisawadephd\/\">Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the face of contentious debate about the value of guns, public health professor David Hemenway decided to have the experts weigh in.\u00a0He modeled\u00a0his research on the study of climate change experts that produced the familiar statistic that 97% of them\u00a0believe that humans are causing\u00a0climate change. He\u00a0identified 300 scholars who have published about firearms in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":66458,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2056,2090,85,250,133],"class_list":["post-66456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-crimelaw","tag-gender-violence","tag-politics","tag-guns","tag-violence"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2015\/04\/53.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66456"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66551,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66456\/revisions\/66551"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}