{"id":891,"date":"2008-09-01T16:44:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-01T16:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.quackometer.net\/wpblog\/2008\/09\/what-can-be-done-to-keep-bad-science-at-bay.html"},"modified":"2008-09-01T16:44:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-01T16:44:00","slug":"what-can-be-done-to-keep-bad-science-at","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quackometer.net\/blog\/2008\/09\/what-can-be-done-to-keep-bad-science-at.html","title":{"rendered":"What can be done to keep Bad Science at bay?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The comedy genius of <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wddty.com\/\">What Doctor&#8217;s Don&#8217;t Tell You<\/a><\/em> always has me in stitches. A recent blog entry warns us of the dangers of <a href=\"http:\/\/community.wddty.com\/blogs\/joblogs\/archive\/2008\/08\/12\/How-clean-is-your-electricity_3F00_.aspx\">DIRTY ELECTRICITY<\/a>. Their comedy writer, Jo Blogs, warns us that,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Dirty electricity\u2019 is a phenomenon few of us have heard about but it could be affecting the lives of millions of people around the world, according to new research. Basically, dirty electricity is a power quality problem generated primarily by modern electrical appliances and lighting systems.<\/p>\n<p>Until recently, dirty electricity was thought to be a problem only for the utility companies, but it is now emerging as a serious public-health issue \u2013 possibly responsible for a host of common illnesses including asthma, diabetes, depression and cancer.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A good joke. But of course we have heard it before. Here is Austin Tassletine&#8217;s orginal ground breaking report&#8230; (just for your amusement.)<\/p>\n<p><object height=\"344\" width=\"425\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/IJCxJWwkHdQ&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/IJCxJWwkHdQ&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>(For those of you expecting something about Ben Goldacre&#8217;s new book, <em>Bad Science<\/em>, launched today, I am sorry. I expect someone else will read it and review if for you soon.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>The comedy genius of What Doctor&#8217;s Don&#8217;t Tell You always has me in stitches. A recent blog entry warns us of the dangers of DIRTY <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.quackometer.net\/blog\/2008\/09\/what-can-be-done-to-keep-bad-science-at.html\" title=\"What can be done to keep Bad Science at bay?\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[71],"class_list":["post-891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-fun"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quackometer.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quackometer.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quackometer.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quackometer.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quackometer.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.quackometer.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/891\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quackometer.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quackometer.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quackometer.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}