{"id":812,"date":"2009-12-19T01:32:46","date_gmt":"2009-12-19T01:32:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hang-out.co.uk\/?p=812"},"modified":"2009-12-19T01:32:46","modified_gmt":"2009-12-19T01:32:46","slug":"bad-science-the-year-in-nonsense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hang-out.co.uk\/index.php\/bad-science\/bad-science-the-year-in-nonsense","title":{"rendered":"Bad Science &#8211; The Year in Nonsense"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/bengoldacre\">Ben Goldacre&#8217;<\/a>s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.badscience.net\/2009\/12\/the-year-in-nonsense\/\">written about in 2009<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<blockquote>It\u2019s been a vintage year for dodgy science in government. We saw reports on cocaine that were disappeared, dodgy evidence to justify DNA retention, and some government advisors who estimated the cost of piracy at 10% of GDP, to media applause, and then failed to tell everyone they\u2019d got the figure wrong by 1000%.<\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.badscience.net\/2009\/12\/the-year-in-nonsense\/\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What Ben Goldacre&#8217;s written about in 2009. It\u2019s been a vintage year for dodgy science in government. We saw reports on cocaine that were disappeared, dodgy evidence to justify DNA retention, and some government advisors who estimated the cost of piracy at 10% of GDP, to media applause, and then failed to tell everyone they\u2019d &hellip; <p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hang-out.co.uk\/index.php\/bad-science\/bad-science-the-year-in-nonsense\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Bad Science &#8211; The Year in Nonsense&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"telegram_tosend":false,"telegram_tosend_message":"","telegram_tosend_target":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[101,100,99],"class_list":["post-812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bad-science","tag-goldacre","tag-news","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hang-out.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hang-out.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hang-out.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hang-out.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hang-out.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hang-out.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hang-out.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hang-out.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hang-out.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}