{"id":3904,"date":"2008-12-31T06:58:03","date_gmt":"2008-12-31T11:58:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3904"},"modified":"2008-12-30T21:09:06","modified_gmt":"2008-12-31T02:09:06","slug":"its-a-dogs-column","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3904","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s A Dog&#8217;s Column"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ll jump to Bogus Doug&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/bogusgold.powerblogs.com\/posts\/1230685104.shtml\">conclusion<\/a><\/p>\n<p>about PiPress columnist Bob Shaw&#8217;s take on a story (a dog is cured by a canine stem cell treatment that is not legal for humans using human stem cells):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Anyway there are two very basic problems with this column. The first is that Shaw is opining in an area of science he apparently lacks very basic knowledge about (Science-journalism: All the whiz-bang and drama of science fiction, without the realization they&#8217;re frequently making stuff up). The second is that Shaw&#8217;s point isn&#8217;t even about what he thinks it is, but seems to rather be a call to lessen the regulatory burden on bringing medical treatments to market; with a kind of endorsement that the medical standards for dogs should be good enough for us.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What led to the conclusion?<\/p>\n<p>Go to BoGo and read up.  It&#8217;s worth the trip.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ll jump to Bogus Doug&#8217;s conclusion about PiPress columnist Bob Shaw&#8217;s take on a story (a dog is cured by a canine stem cell treatment that is not legal for humans using human stem cells): Anyway there are two very basic problems with this column. The first is that Shaw is opining in an area [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,52,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-war","category-life","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3904","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=3904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3904\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}