{"id":263,"date":"2014-01-28T11:39:59","date_gmt":"2014-01-28T11:39:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dave0.nfshost.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/2014\/01\/28\/bed-bugs-statistics-press-release-reporting-and-you-bedbugs-gaaaah\/"},"modified":"2014-01-28T11:39:59","modified_gmt":"2014-01-28T11:39:59","slug":"bed-bugs-statistics-press-release-reporting-and-you-bedbugs-gaaaah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/2014\/01\/bed-bugs-statistics-press-release-reporting-and-you-bedbugs-gaaaah\/","title":{"rendered":"Bed Bugs, Statistics, Press-Release Reporting, and You #bedbugs #gaaaah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/4\/4d\/PSM_V37_D356_Bed_bugs.jpg\" width=200 align=left hspace=20 vspace=15><br \/>\nI continue to write a monthly column for the <i>Ann Arbor Chronicle<\/i>.  This latest installment explores <a href=\"http:\/\/annarborchronicle.com\/2014\/01\/24\/in-it-for-the-money-bed-bugs\/\">the dangers of bed bugs<\/a> (SPOILER ALERT: <I>zilch<\/i>), as well as the dangers of hysterical unverified re-reporting of &#8220;information&#8221; in press releases (SPOILER ALER: <i>significant<\/i>).  It begins like this:<\/p>\n<div id=blkq>\nWe met our first bed bug while traveling in the spring of 2011. My wife had plucked the creature from a friend\u2019s bedroom wall. . . .\n<\/div>\n<p>And ends like this:<\/p>\n<div id=blkq>\n. . .  If you\u2019re tempted to dismiss such things as \u201call in your head,\u201d then just remember this: An intelligent man \u2013 a man you respect enough to wade through 4,000 words of his thoughts on bed bugs \u2013 drove into the vortex, endangering the lives of his toddler and seven-year-old, because he was afraid of the bed bug\u2019s bite.\n<\/div>\n<p>And has about 4000 words in between, with a whole mess of numbers and attributable statements of fact (with attribution!).<br \/>\nIn case you happen to run into bed bugs while traveling, I&#8217;ve written up this handy supplemental guide:  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/2014\/01\/bed_bugs_the_travelers_respons.html\">Bed Bugs: A Traveler&#8217;s Response<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I continue to write a monthly column for the Ann Arbor Chronicle. This latest installment explores the dangers of bed bugs (SPOILER ALERT: zilch), as well as the dangers of hysterical unverified re-reporting of &#8220;information&#8221; in press releases (SPOILER ALER: significant). It begins like this: We met our first bed bug while traveling in the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/2014\/01\/bed-bugs-statistics-press-release-reporting-and-you-bedbugs-gaaaah\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Bed Bugs, Statistics, Press-Release Reporting, and You #bedbugs #gaaaah&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_share_on_mastodon":"1"},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}