Word: bias
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...never been a secret that beautiful people get more breaks than everyone else, nor that the bias may start in the nursery. An oft cited - and deeply disturbing - Israeli study once showed that 70% of abused or abandoned children had at least one apparent flaw in their appearance, which otherwise had no impact on their health or educability. McLean psychiatrist Dr. Igor Elman and postdoctoral student Rinah Yamamoto devised a study to explore that phenomenon more closely. (See pictures of pregnant-belly...
...political affiliations and the Telegraph's own establishment credentials. Once nicknamed "The Torygraph," one of the daily's most famous editors served as a Conservative Cabinet minister; among its current star columnists is its former reporter, the Conservative Mayor of London, Boris Johnson. Lewis vehemently denies any suggestion of bias. The decision to start with government was purely editorial, he says, and MPs from the Conservative and Liberal Democratic parties were subsequently scrutinized with the same vigor. "Had this expenses story landed in a different environment, it wouldn't have had this impact, of pushing the government to the verge...
...according to Karp. While Smith has kept mum about her potential involvement in the case and her relationship with Copney, Campbell has since taken part in interviews with multiple media outlets, challenging Harvard’s action and alleging that the University’s decision was motivated by bias. While she is not making an “overall claim of racism,” she told The Globe last week in an interview moderated by her attorney, “I do believe I am being singled out...I’m black...
...have to accommodate some of the consequences.”With FAS now planning to revamp its administrative and programmatic structure, the University’s decision to reconfigure its limited laboratory space has irked affected MCB researchers who feel the move suggests an underlying bias towards more lucrative research.“I think it sends a message. It’s one thing to build a big stem cell institution in Allston, where you’re launching a whole special project,” said Jim Henle, an MCB lab administrator in Fairchild, in a March interview...
...intelligence; that the Americans are assisting the Taliban in Afghanistan to justify and secure a Central Asian foothold against China; and the old chestnut that Israel's Mossad and the CIA were behind the 9/11 attacks on the U.S. While no press in any country is without flaw or bias, I count on fellow journalists everywhere to be more enlightened and sensible than average folk. But in Pakistan's case, sections of the media are reinforcing the nation's paranoia at a critical time when it faces a threat to its very existence...