Scapegoats

Whoever is to blame at the end of the day, the problem can often be traced to the fact that the initial budget was unrealistic at the outset. To set an inadequate budget, watch it overrun, and then look for a scapegoat may have become common practice but it achieves nothing. 

The effect of such well-intentioned regulations might be counterproductive Industry could either be forced to withdraw products from the market despite their scientific merits because compliance is impossible, or they might dishonestly propose analytical methods that sweep all but a scapegoat impurity below the carpet. 

Frederic Cople Jaher, A Scapegoat in the New Wilderness The Origins and Rise of Anti-Semitism in America (Cambridge Harvard University Press, 1994), pp. 17, 82, 87-88, 106, 112. For Jaher s view of the Christian roots of the Jew as Historical Outsider, see pp. 17-81 passim. 

Florman, Samuel C., Blaming Technology The Irrational Searchfor Scapegoats, St. Martin s Press, 1981. 

The centre stage occupied by the drug problem in these households was both cause and justification for skewed family dynamics it was the fuel of family problems and also a resource. In providing a ready-made explanation for any family problem, it justified a cycle of negative reaction that progressively locked the family member with the drug problem into the position of family scapegoat. 

Trauner, Joan B. 1978. "The Chinese as Medical Scapegoats in San Francisco, 1870-1905." California History 57 70-87. 

Between 1874 and 1942 it was highly esteemed as a headache remedy by most prominent physicians of the age. Although the American Medical Association vigorously opposed the action, cannabis became essentially illegal in 1937. Whether or not the plant became a scapegoat for a perceived social problem, research funding was curtailed. In 1941, preparations of cannabis were dropped from the United States Pharmacopoeia (USP) and the National Formulary. Yet a year later, the Journal of the American Medical Association advocated that oral preparations of cannabis be prescribed for the relief of menstrual migraine. 

The scapegoat tries to win the alcoholic s attention by engaging in negative behavior. This child often does poorly in school, can have behavioral problems or attention deficit disorders that affect learn-... 

Between 1997 and 1998 there was a rash of shooting in schools by angry students against students and teachers. What were the circumstances and causes of this flare-up To what extent was the blame put on the media, which may have incited the students to violence Or, was the media just a scapegoat What else could have been a cause ... 

In a way, it was almost a relief to him when it happened. Ever since Sally Palmer s body had been found, he d lived in fear, knowing that rationality didn t play ar part in selecting scapegoats. At ni when he returned from work he would hurry into his cottage and shutter himself inside, hoping that invisibility would continue to protect him That Saturday ni, though, it foiled. 

Neal JM, Pollock JE. Can scapegoats stand on shifting sands Reg Anesth Pain Med 1998 23(6) 533-7. 

The behavior associated with the saloon led to a rebirth of the Temperance Movement, which had been quieted somewhat by the American Civil War. The saloon was the focal scapegoat of the Temperance Movement and was blamed for social ills such as thievery, gambling, prostitution, and political corruption. The Temperance Mox ement... 

To some extent, the antiopium laws adopted by various states were not meant solely to harass the Chinese, but were instead a reaction to what many saw as a real drag menace in America. The Chinese were merely the scapegoats. 

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