Word: backlashers
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...backlash against cloning, however, shows that such distinctions are less easily made by the general public. This is a telling sing of the state of modern science. As science more and more specialized, cutting-edge research recedes ever further from the understanding of the average person. Science seems to be growing ever more powerful and yet we have less and less understanding, and thus control...
...science which they do not understand, where scientists must constantly work under the shadow of public opinion, chained by restrictive laws. The real danger apparent in the cloning debate is not that it will really give us made-to-order human beings, but that it will create a backlash against science that could have impacts in every field...
...Mexico defeat of NAFTA could provoke an anti-gringo backlash that would severely hamper President Carlos Salinas de Gortari's efforts to open up its markets and move toward fuller democracy. C. Richard Neu, the CIA's National Intelligence Officer for Economics, has told Congress that a NAFTA defeat "would be widely seen in Mexico not just as a U.S. repudiation of NAFTA but as a rejection of Mexico itself," with severe damage to U.S.-Mexican relations in many areas...
...backlash against gangsta has been forming, especially among blacks who may be fans of other, less bloody-minded styles of hip-hop. "They send messages to children, and kids are impressionable" says Von Alexander of the National Political Congress of Black Women, which has launched a national petition drive to bring pressure on record companies. Rap Sheet magazine will no longer accept ads for albums that show rappers with guns...
...songs are "about": love; epilepsy; only children; self-punishing wives; the New Zealand music industry; philosophy; rape; being married; getting old and losing your sex drive; and "liberal backlash angst" (a song so nasty that Knox felt compelled to write, in his liner notes, that the fictional person whose thoughts it expresses should probably kill himself). Chris Knox has something neat to say about every single one of those topics and more, and a range of vocal melodies to match. "Not Given Lightly" is one of the most sincere and moving love songs I know; I've personally seen...