{"id":193522,"date":"2008-12-09T22:35:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-10T03:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/12\/09\/defective-even-by-the-standards-of-taser-international\/"},"modified":"2008-12-09T22:35:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-10T03:35:00","slug":"defective-even-by-the-standards-of-taser-international","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/12\/09\/defective-even-by-the-standards-of-taser-international\/","title":{"rendered":"Defective Even by the Standards of Taser International"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Taser, International has always maintained that their little toy that should be treated as a lethal weapon is safe.<\/p>\n<p>They even have studies to prove it.<\/p>\n<p>Only, it turns out that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.azcentral.com\/news\/articles\/2008\/12\/05\/20081205taser1205.html\">their products do not meet the company&#8217;s own dubious standarsa<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>A new study has found that the type of Taser stun gun used most by police officers can fire more electricity than the company says is possible, which the study&#8217;s authors say raises the risk of cardiac arrest as much as 50 percent in some people.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So, not only is their own science dubious, but <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">their manufacturing processes are too<\/span>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taser, International has always maintained that their little toy that should be treated as a lethal weapon is safe. They even have studies to prove it. Only, it turns out that their products do not meet the company&#8217;s own dubious standarsa: A new study has found that the type of Taser stun gun used most &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[970,972,1025],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-justice","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193522"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193522\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}