{"id":3295,"date":"2015-04-11T15:17:49","date_gmt":"2015-04-11T20:17:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/?p=3295"},"modified":"2015-04-11T14:36:36","modified_gmt":"2015-04-11T19:36:36","slug":"complimentary-earplugs-20100-freakonomics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/2015\/04\/11\/complimentary-earplugs-20100-freakonomics\/","title":{"rendered":"Complimentary Earplugs (20\/100) \u2013 Freakonomics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/files\/2015\/04\/Freakonomics_Square.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-3296\" src=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/files\/2015\/04\/Freakonomics_Square-300x300.png\" alt=\"Freakonomics_Square\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/files\/2015\/04\/Freakonomics_Square-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/files\/2015\/04\/Freakonomics_Square-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/files\/2015\/04\/Freakonomics_Square-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/files\/2015\/04\/Freakonomics_Square-50x50.png 50w, https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/files\/2015\/04\/Freakonomics_Square.png 1400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>You&#8217;ve probably heard of the Freakonomics books and some of the more controversial theories therein, such as the\u00a0notion that seemingly honorable Sumo wrestlers are throwing matches under narrow and well-specified\u00a0conditions. What you may not have heard is that the last couple\u00a0podcast episodes have been focusing on evidence-based medicine:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/freakonomics.com\/2015\/04\/02\/how-do-we-know-what-really-works-in-healthcare-a-new-freakonomics-radio-podcast\/\" target=\"_blank\">Episode 201<\/a>\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0How Do We Know What Really Works in Healthcare?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/freakonomics.com\/2015\/04\/09\/how-many-doctors-does-it-take-to-start-a-healthcare-revolution-a-new-freakonomics-radio-podcast\/\" target=\"_blank\">Episode 202<\/a> &#8211; How Many Doctors Does It Take to Start a Healthcare Revolution?<\/p>\n<p>The first of these was primarily about doing more randomized controlled trials in practical\u00a0clinical settings, while the second one was a broader indictment of the American healthcare system based on measured outcomes. Both episodes are data-driven and feature science advocates speaking out against a lack of rigorous and rational thinking, just like you&#8217;d expect from a well-produced\u00a0skeptic podcast, only moreso.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/freakonomics.com\/radio\/\" target=\"_blank\">Share and enjoy<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;ve probably heard of the Freakonomics books and some of the more controversial theories therein, such as the\u00a0notion that seemingly&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":3296,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-complimentary-earplugs","category-skepticism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3295\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}