{"id":9,"date":"2008-07-21T16:13:31","date_gmt":"2008-07-21T20:13:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/maxim\/2008\/07\/21\/epidemic-part-4\/"},"modified":"2008-07-21T16:13:31","modified_gmt":"2008-07-21T20:13:31","slug":"epidemic-part-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/maxim\/2008\/07\/21\/epidemic-part-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Epidemic! part 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Clinical trials are critical to understanding diseases and effects of immunizations. [p. 95] How cool (albeit expensive) would it be if we could do clinical trials of new anti-malware software? I could imagine a third-party company enlisting a bunch of computer techs\/consultants to install the software and then check back with the user and computer a few times to look for signs (observable evidence) and symptoms (user-reported evidence) of malware infection and &#8220;adverse events.&#8221; The hard part would be making it controlled and double blind, though having some sort of control (e.g., the free Microsoft protection or an older, established product) might be possible.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>This entry is part of a series. See the <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/maxim\/2008\/06\/20\/the-public-health-of-the-internet\/\">introduction<\/a> for more information.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clinical trials are critical to understanding diseases and effects of immunizations. [p. 95] How cool (albeit expensive) would it be if we could do clinical trials of new anti-malware software? I could imagine a third-party company enlisting a bunch of computer techs\/consultants to install the software and then check back with the user and computer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1845,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2696],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-publichealth"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/maxim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/maxim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/maxim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/maxim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1845"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/maxim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/maxim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/maxim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/maxim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/maxim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}