{"id":836,"date":"2008-05-30T03:05:22","date_gmt":"2008-05-30T09:05:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=836"},"modified":"2008-05-30T14:12:36","modified_gmt":"2008-05-30T20:12:36","slug":"good-news-for-once","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=836","title":{"rendered":"Good News, For Once"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That massive verdict against Vioxx on behalf of the cardiac patient who hadn&#8217;t even been taking the drug?  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.14thcoa.courts.state.tx.us\/opinions\/htmlopinion.asp?OpinionId=84567\">Overturned<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><b>Update<\/b>: Just to show that stupidity is neither conservative nor liberal (just mostly liberal), the trial lawyers are bitching about <a href=\"http:\/\/overlawyered.com\/2008\/05\/mark-lanier-is-lying-about-the-ernst-v-merck-vioxx-decision\/\">&#8220;judicial activism&#8221;<\/a>.  Just because the court threw out a verdict that was based on &#8230; no scientific evidence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That massive verdict against Vioxx on behalf of the cardiac patient who hadn&#8217;t even been taking the drug? Overturned. Update: Just to show that stupidity is neither conservative nor liberal (just mostly liberal), the trial lawyers are bitching about &#8220;judicial activism&#8221;. Just because the court threw out a verdict that was based on &#8230; no &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=836\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Good News, For Once<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law-and-order"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BzKF-du","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}