{"id":16966,"date":"2018-08-08T08:07:52","date_gmt":"2018-08-08T13:07:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=16966"},"modified":"2018-08-08T08:07:52","modified_gmt":"2018-08-08T13:07:52","slug":"word-of-the-day-391","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2018\/08\/08\/word-of-the-day-391\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Equipoise<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Emails published as part of the NIH report suggest that backers of the trial expected to show that moderate drinking has a health benefit. Researchers are supposed to have what is known as \u201cequipoise\u201d going into a trial. That means \u201cyou are approaching a question with a completely neutral attitude,\u201d [cardiologist and deputy director for extramural research at NIH Michael] Lauer said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>From &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national\/health-science\/a-huge-clinical-trial-collapses-and-research-on-alcohol-remains-befuddling\/2018\/08\/03\/d5205bd8-749a-11e8-805c-4b67019fcfe4_story.html?utm_term=.29ab3c0c49a1&amp;wpisrc=nl_most&amp;wpmm=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>A huge clinical trial collapses, and research on alcohol remains befuddling<\/em><\/a>,&#8221;\u00a0Joel Achenbach, <em><strong>WaPo<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Equipoise: Emails published as part of the NIH report suggest that backers of the trial expected to show that moderate drinking has a health benefit. Researchers are supposed to have what is known as \u201cequipoise\u201d going into a trial. That means \u201cyou are approaching a question with a completely neutral \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2018\/08\/08\/word-of-the-day-391\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16966"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16967,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16966\/revisions\/16967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}