{"id":15371,"date":"2009-11-01T12:37:03","date_gmt":"2009-11-01T17:37:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=15371"},"modified":"2009-11-01T12:39:04","modified_gmt":"2009-11-01T17:39:04","slug":"quite-possibly-the-stupidest-article-nyt-ever-published","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=15371","title":{"rendered":"Quite possibly the stupidest article NYT ever published"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I can&#8217;t believe I read the whole thing. The New York Times has an article entitled &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/atwar.blogs.nytimes.com\/2009\/10\/30\/in-pain-women-soldiers-may-be-tougher\/\">In Pain, Women Soldiers May Be Tougher<\/a>&#8221; about a research program on whether men or women in the military report more pain.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>In a review of the records of veterans of the wars in Iraq or Afghanistan, researchers at the Yale University School of Medicine and Veterans Affairs Connecticut Health Care System found that women were less likely than men to report any pain, 38.1 percent to 44 percent.<\/p>\n<p>By a smaller margin, 18 percent to 21.2 percent, the women veterans were also less likely than the men to report having persistent pain. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Um, think maybe it can depend on whether men or women HAVE more pain? No, of course not;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThe findings were surprising to us,\u201d said Dr. Sally Haskell, an associate professor of medicine at Yale who was the lead investigator.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>What findings? Where? Why don&#8217;t they do a study to see if people who live in cities or rural areas report more automobile accidents and then announce that people in the city are compassionate than rural denizens because they report more accidents per capita.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThere is a lot more work to do,\u201d she said. \u201cThis is the tip of the iceberg.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>As far as work goes, Sally, it&#8217;s the tip of the polar ice cap.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can&#8217;t believe I read the whole thing. The New York Times has an article entitled &hellip; <a title=\"Quite possibly the stupidest article NYT ever published\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=15371\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Quite possibly the stupidest article NYT ever published<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15371\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}