Political correctness

When I arrived last Friday night, the bar at Hearth was crowded with filthy wine drinkers—prosperous types who can take up two bar stools and not feel bothered to move. There were three women in dark day-to-evening suits who looked like editors at literary publishing houses haircuts as opposed to hairdos, light makeup and small, sensible earrings—the fashion equivalent of political correctness. 

XI. Excessive attention paid to political correctness leads to social incorrectness. 

Back to the future. The situation with regard to human testing today is vastly different. Considerations of human civil rights (some of them seeming to be included in the name of what some call political correctness ) now cause conscientious investigators to ask themselves many questions before submitting a proposal. 

Gottlieb, Alan M. Politically Correct Guns Please Don t Rob or Kill Me. Bellevue, Wash. Merril Press, 1996. Takes on the gun control advocates by deploying humor and sarcasm but also provides a useful (though one-sided) overview. Gottlieb is chairman of the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms. 

Please note that when referring to doctors, patients, students, etc. 1 have used the pronoun he as an abbreviation of the more politically correct form he/she . 

It is also prudent to explain other options, especially if the first medication trial is unsuccessful. Thus, it is crucial to reassure the patient before the first antidepressant trial that if unsuccessful, there is a good chance of responding to an alternative therapy. Patients understand and accept the concept of empirical trials. Educating and involving them in the decision-making process is not only politically correct, but also therapeutic because this approach... 

A few loyalists still maintain that a sinister conspiracy by big government and industry killed cold fusion, but cold fusion was thoroughly discredited in society at large. Unlike the Lysenko affair, there was no all-powerful political establishment that could declare cold fusion to be politically correct or incorrect and its opponents enemies of the people. 

In looking for new ways of fighting back, I decided that a good approach might be to speak and publish papers about understanding the risks in our society. This would seem to be a matter of interest to the public, and there is no problem with whether it is politically correct. I always unobtrusively worked in examples,... 

Any attempt to alter or suppress a scientist s published views after his death cannot be tolerated. This retraction is an important victory for science. Politics too often takes precedence over scientific evidence. Had Dr. Singer not taken action against Lancaster s false and defamatory claims, it would have had a chilling effect on all scientists now confronting political correctness on environmental issues.16... 

Solter, D. (2005). Politically correct human embryonic stem cells N Engl J Med, 353, 2321-3. 

As in the Sokol affair, wherein a paper, the physics of which could have been detected as spurious by a sophomore but that was in politically correct argot and used the right references, was accepted by a journal of so-called cultural studies. 

Higher Education was formed 1988 and I was its chairman from the interim-istic board of 1988 until its Helsinki conference in August 1991. I had for two years — with no success since it was not politically correct at that time — tried to open the association for universities (only institutional membership was allowed) from the Baltic states. At the Helsinki conference we had, however, many Baltic participants (and also Russians and Belarusians) and they were very concerned about what was going on in their home countries those days. And the Finnish radio and TV did not provide much information. But CNN was a good source of information. 

For Diller, this difference in the incidence of ADHD between the United States and other countries might be due to what he calls the politically correct parenting popular in the contemporary United States. Until recently, parents would discipline their children by following the old adage Spare the rod, spoil the child. Today, parents in other... 

Dr. Green unconditionally defends the scientific frauds from the Cracow institute, and both get away with it, because in the eyes of the public, both have the politically correct scientific opinion about Auschwitz. Birds of the same feather flock together. 

Much has been written in the past 10 years on traceability in chemical analyses but most of these contributions can be classified as scientifically logical or politically correct. Less can be considered as operationally relevant and useful for end-users [1]. The purpose of this paper is to contribute to this topic by addressing practical aspects of the traceability of chemical measurements, considering routine analytical methodologies of field laboratories, in a specific case of environmental analysis. 

So I thought I would ask another woman faculty member to read the letter and delete anything that might be offensive. I picked out a woman whom I admired enormously, although I barely knew her. She was enormously successful scientifically and politically correct to boot. 

It came up continuously that everybody has become so politically correct that you worry about the legal whiplash. If we do some things, we may be opening ourselves up for a counter discrimination suit. So possible legal issues may create a barrier as we talk about things—we need to either stand to the side or take the risk. And if we let the lawyers at it, we all know what the lawyers are going to do. 

Cf. J.F. Gamer, Politically Correct Bedtime Stories, New York 1994. 

So what are demands requiring historical expert witnesses to keep silent This appears to be nothing less than the admission of a renowned expert witness that incomplete and thus biased testimony by those witnesses is the mle rather than the exception, i.e., that they all commit peijury, probably partly because they are convinced that this is morally (in other words, politically) correct, or because they are simply afraid of the public reaction that is to be expected if they break the unwritten rules of Germany s strongest taboo. 

By historically correct conclusions he probably means those allegations of mass extermination that have been disproved for the western camps but are said to be correct for the alleged extermination camps in the East. As for the politically [...] correct conclusions , these probably relate to the desirable effects that mis-captioning such photos has in terms of public education .19... 

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