{"id":386,"date":"2005-02-08T23:31:55","date_gmt":"2005-02-09T06:31:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/?p=386"},"modified":"2005-02-08T23:31:55","modified_gmt":"2005-02-09T06:31:55","slug":"consumer-reports-on-contraception","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/2005\/02\/08\/consumer-reports-on-contraception\/","title":{"rendered":"Consumer Reports on Contraception"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ocf.berkeley.edu\/~sumanah\/cgi-bin\/nb\/nb.cgi\/view\/weblog\/2005\/02\/08\/0\">Sumana Harihareswara<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><i>Science!: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.consumerreports.org\/main\/content\/display_report.jsp?FOLDER%3C%3Efolder_id=551091&#038;ASSORTMENT%3C%3East_id=333141&#038;bmUID=1107893977692\">Consumer Reports has put out a compare-and-contrast report on the various types of contraceptives on the market today.<\/a> If you are in a committed, monogamous relationship and you want to prevent pregnancy but don&#8217;t have to worry about sexually transmitted diseases, you have a plethora of options!<\/p>\n<p>It is kind of weird that we still don&#8217;t know why the copper IUD works.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Now here&#8217;s a question I have: for most medicinal tests, don&#8217;t they have to have something to compare the drug to, like a placebo? So if that&#8217;s true, then do they only have to use couples who wouldn&#8217;t mind if they got pregnant? How do they get the fail rates?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sumana Harihareswara: Science!: Consumer Reports has put out a compare-and-contrast report on the various types of contraceptives on the market today. If you are in a committed, monogamous relationship and you want to prevent pregnancy but don&#8217;t have to worry about sexually transmitted diseases, you have a plethora of options! It is kind of weird that we still don&#8217;t know why the copper IUD works. Now here&#8217;s a question I have: for most medicinal tests, don&#8217;t they have to have&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[88],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","hentry","category-i-love-the-internet","post_format-post-format-aside"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4uks-6e","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}