{"id":18702,"date":"2011-03-10T09:43:26","date_gmt":"2011-03-10T15:43:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=18702"},"modified":"2011-08-25T15:18:54","modified_gmt":"2011-08-25T20:18:54","slug":"academic-rigor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=18702","title":{"rendered":"Academic Rigor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Parachutes might not <em>actually <\/em>save lives.<\/p>\n<p>Serious.\u00a0 The FDA has never run a double-blind study, there&#8217;s no academic literature on the subject, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.science20.com\/predatory_gastropod\/parachutes_just_another_big_pharmafda_conspiracy-76860\">therefore<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The perception that parachutes are a successful intervention is based largely on anecdotal evidence. Observational data have shown that their use is associated with morbidity and mortality, due to both failure of the intervention1 2 and iatrogenic complications*.3 In addition, \u201cnatural history\u201d studies of free fall indicate that failure to take or deploy a parachute does not inevitably result in an adverse outcome.4 We therefore undertook a systematic review of randomised controlled trials of parachutes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Parachutes might not actually save lives. Serious.\u00a0 The FDA has never run a double-blind study, there&#8217;s no academic literature on the subject, and therefore&#8230; The perception that parachutes are a successful intervention is based largely on anecdotal evidence. Observational data have shown that their use is associated with morbidity and mortality, due to both failure [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conservatism","category-culture-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18702"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21957,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18702\/revisions\/21957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}