{"id":2101,"date":"2014-04-06T13:25:00","date_gmt":"2014-04-06T13:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/archives\/2014\/04\/06\/almost-as-a-counterweight-to-the-lawmakers-and\/"},"modified":"2015-01-04T17:06:49","modified_gmt":"2015-01-04T16:06:49","slug":"almost-as-a-counterweight-to-the-lawmakers-and","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/archives\/2014\/04\/06\/almost-as-a-counterweight-to-the-lawmakers-and\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>Almost as a counterweight to the lawmakers and media personalities that use a single clinical trial to prove games are fundamentally evil, the evangelists use a single clinical trial to prove that games are fundamentally benevolent. \u201cPlay, don\u2019t Replay!\u201d is just another example of games evangelists twisting a study into a nail to advance their own hammer under the guise of saving the world, and it\u2019s something that people should be cynical about. If being a games naysayer means thinking critically about the place of games in society and not overreaching the findings of individual studies, I for one will gladly be a games naysayer.<\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"attribution\"><p><a href=\"http:\/\/theconversation.com\/games-evangelists-and-naysayers-25006\">Games evangelists and naysayers<\/a><\/p>\n\n<p>The even-handed approach to using games for change that is championed here is (sadly) still uncommon in industry.<\/p><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Almost as a counterweight to the lawmakers and media personalities that use a single clinical trial to prove games are fundamentally evil, the evangelists use a single clinical trial to prove that games are fundamentally benevolent. \u201cPlay, don\u2019t Replay!\u201d is just another example of games evangelists twisting a study into a nail to advance their &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/archives\/2014\/04\/06\/almost-as-a-counterweight-to-the-lawmakers-and\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\"><\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[983],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-tumblr","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2101\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}