{"id":3484,"date":"2025-05-24T15:32:09","date_gmt":"2025-05-24T22:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/?p=3484"},"modified":"2025-05-24T15:32:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-24T22:32:09","slug":"a-convenient-piece-of-junk-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/2025\/05\/24\/a-convenient-piece-of-junk-science\/","title":{"rendered":"A Convenient Piece of Junk Science"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleParagraph_root__4mszW\" data-flatplan-paragraph=\"true\">The report that Kennedy cited was posted late last month to the website of the <a href=\"https:\/\/eppc.org\/about\/\" data-event-element=\"inline link\">Ethics and Public Policy Center<\/a>, a Washington, D.C.\u2013based think tank focused on \u201cpushing back against the extreme progressive agenda while building a consensus for conservatives,\u201d according to its website. The study\u2019s authors, Jamie Bryan Hall, EPPC\u2019s director of data analysis, and Ryan Anderson, the organization&#8217;s president, are not health experts, and neither seems to have a record of publishing scientific research through peer review. Their methods deviated wildly from what is <a href=\"https:\/\/academic.oup.com\/aje\/article\/193\/11\/1625\/7680566\" data-event-element=\"inline link\">standard<\/a> in the world of health research, and so, predictably, did their conclusions: In sharp contrast to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.contraceptionjournal.org\/article\/S0010-7824(12)00643-9\/fulltext\" data-event-element=\"inline link\">dozens of trials<\/a> conducted around the globe over decades, the EPPC report determined that mifepristone is a danger to women.<\/p>\n<p data-flatplan-paragraph=\"true\">Read more at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/health\/archive\/2025\/05\/mifepristone-abortion-rfk-fda\/682939\/\">The Atlantic<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleParagraph_root__4mszW\" data-flatplan-paragraph=\"true\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The report that Kennedy cited was posted late last month to the website of the Ethics and Public Policy Center, a Washington, D.C.\u2013based think tank focused on \u201cpushing back against the extreme progressive agenda while building a consensus for conservatives,\u201d according to its website. The study\u2019s authors, Jamie Bryan Hall, EPPC\u2019s director of data analysis, &#8230; <a title=\"A Convenient Piece of Junk Science\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/2025\/05\/24\/a-convenient-piece-of-junk-science\/\" aria-label=\"More on A Convenient Piece of Junk Science\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[172,253,147,625,345,227,644,224],"class_list":["post-3484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-abortion-bans","tag-anti-abortion","tag-fda","tag-junk-science","tag-medication-abortion","tag-mifepristone","tag-non-peer-reviewed-studies","tag-rfk-jr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3484"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3485,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3484\/revisions\/3485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}