{"id":10700,"date":"2015-03-20T05:00:40","date_gmt":"2015-03-20T09:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/?p=10700"},"modified":"2015-03-18T09:17:00","modified_gmt":"2015-03-18T13:17:00","slug":"confirmation-bias-and-the-new-york-times-evidence-based-wishful-thinking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/10700","title":{"rendered":"A Twitter Conversation on Confirmation Bias and the NYT&#8217;s Evidence-Based Wishful Thinking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following up on Monday&#8217;s <a title=\"The NYT and Nutrition in India: Evidence-Based Wishful Thinking\" href=\"http:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/10668\" target=\"_blank\">post<\/a>, here is a &#8220;conversation&#8221; I had on Twitter earlier this week about my post on the New York Times&#8217; love of &#8220;evidence-based wishful thinking.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m glad Lawrence Haddad (whose work I&#8217;ve been reading and admiring since my second semester in grad school) got the final word&#8211;and was not afraid to call a spade a spade in his last tweet.<\/p>\n<div class=\"storify\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/storify.com\/mfbellemare\/confirmation-bias-and-the-nyt-s-evidence-based-wis\/embed?header=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"750\" frameborder=\"no\"><\/iframe><script src=\"\/\/storify.com\/mfbellemare\/confirmation-bias-and-the-nyt-s-evidence-based-wis.js?header=false\"><\/script><noscript>[&lt;a href=&#8221;\/\/storify.com\/mfbellemare\/confirmation-bias-and-the-nyt-s-evidence-based-wis&#8221; target=&#8221;_blank&#8221;&gt;View the story &#8220;Confirmation Bias and the NYT&#8217;s Evidence-Based Wishful Thinking&#8221; on Storify&lt;\/a&gt;]<\/noscript><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following up on Monday&#8217;s post, here is a &#8220;conversation&#8221; I had on Twitter earlier this week about my post on the New York Times&#8217; love&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/10700\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A Twitter Conversation on Confirmation Bias and the NYT&#8217;s Evidence-Based Wishful Thinking<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1gPg8-2MA","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10700"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10704,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10700\/revisions\/10704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}