{"id":442345,"date":"2010-03-18T09:33:59","date_gmt":"2010-03-18T13:33:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=79577"},"modified":"2010-03-18T09:33:59","modified_gmt":"2010-03-18T13:33:59","slug":"marco-rubio-falls-for-bogus-medical-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/442345","title":{"rendered":"Marco Rubio Falls for Bogus Medical Study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Media Matters has done yeoman&#8217;s work <a href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/blog\/201003170036\">debunking<\/a> the myth of a &#8220;New England Journal of Medicine study&#8221; that allegedly found 46 percent of physicians ready to &#8220;leave medicine or try to leave medicine&#8221; if health care reform passes. The prestigious journal conducted no such study; the numbers were assembled from a non-random study by The Medicus Firm. But perhaps because Investor&#8217;s Business Daily produced another slanted poll with a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.investors.com\/NewsAndAnalysis\/Article.aspx?id=506199\">similar number <\/a>of &#8220;doctors ready to quit,&#8221; this meme has really taken off. One of those duped: Florida U.S. Senate candidate Marco Rubio.<span id=\"more-79577\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-79578\" title=\"Picture 11\" src=\"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Picture-11-480x230.png\" alt=\"Picture 11\" width=\"480\" height=\"230\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Rubio actually writes his own tweets, by the way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Media Matters has done yeoman&#8217;s work debunking the myth of a &#8220;New England Journal of Medicine study&#8221; that allegedly found 46 percent of physicians ready to &#8220;leave medicine or try to leave medicine&#8221; if health care reform passes. The prestigious journal conducted no such study; the numbers were assembled from a non-random study by The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4313,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-442345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4313"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=442345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442345\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=442345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=442345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=442345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}