{"id":111903,"date":"2020-08-25T16:22:47","date_gmt":"2020-08-25T23:22:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/as-researchers-race-to-find-successful-treatments-and-an-eventual-cure-for-covid-19-everyone-is-getting-a-real-time-glimpse-into-the-messiness-of-scientific-discovery"},"modified":"2020-08-25T16:22:47","modified_gmt":"2020-08-25T23:22:47","slug":"as-researchers-race-to-find-successful-treatments-and-an-eventual-cure-for-covid-19-everyone-is-getting-a-real-time-glimpse-into-the-messiness-of-scientific-discovery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/as-researchers-race-to-find-successful-treatments-and-an-eventual-cure-for-covid-19-everyone-is-getting-a-real-time-glimpse-into-the-messiness-of-scientific-discovery","title":{"rendered":"As researchers race to find successful treatments and an eventual cure for COVID-19, everyone is getting a real-time glimpse into the messiness of scientific discovery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/as-researchers-race-to-find-successful-treatments-and-an-eventual-cure-for-covid-19-everyone-is-getting-a-real-time-glimpse-into-the-messiness-of-scientific-discovery2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re all impatient for solid recommendations based on rigorous testing and established facts, but in a fast-moving field, that\u2019s rarely possible. And someone always has to be the guinea pig. This was just as true 130 years ago when Niels Ryberg Finsen began experimenting with treating disease with UV light. He started by testing on himself.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Niels Ryberg Finsen pioneered therapeutic ultraviolet lamps and won himself a Nobel Prize.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019re all impatient for solid recommendations based on rigorous testing and established facts, but in a fast-moving field, that\u2019s rarely possible. And someone always has to be the guinea pig. This was just as true 130 years ago when Niels Ryberg Finsen began experimenting with treating disease with UV light. He started by testing on [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111903\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}