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...time, a women's world championship didn't exist, and females had been participating in the FIS Continental Cup - a notch below a world championship - for only two years. The sport didn't have very many high-profile, FIS-sanctioned competitions, but that too may have owed to gender bias. In 2005, Gian Franco Kasper, FIS president and a member of the IOC, said he didn't think women should ski jump because the sport "seems not to be appropriate for ladies from a medical point of view." By the time women's ski jumping was included at a world...
...medical community is watching such Patient 2.0 endeavors with a mix of admiration and trepidation. Clinical trials take a long time because they're rigorously controlled, with close attention paid to sampling bias and methodology. "Traditional, long-standing, peer-reviewed ways of testing new treatments and interventions is not going to go out the window," says Dr. Sharon Murphy, a pediatric oncologist who organized the IOM conference. "There is a strong scientific underpinning that is lacking in this Web 2.0 stuff." (Read "Does Tele-Therapy Work...
...suspect the folks complaining about the iPad's alleged read-only bias will look exactly like the folks who argued that Apple was screwing over developers in the spring of 2007. To argue in good faith that Jobs and Apple are not committed to user-created media is to ignore the entire first wave of Jobs' reinvention of Apple: the iPod may have turned Apple into a Wall Street icon, but it was the iMac and the whole iLife digital-hub positioning that brought the company back from the dead. During the iPad keynote, four of the most impressive...
...most counts, Malaysia, too, goes on trial on Tuesday. The judiciary, which was showing some independence in recent years, has come under attack again for bias and for pandering to political masters. Neither the Attorney General nor the police are widely seen as independent or impartial institutions, and opposition lawmakers constantly accuse them of selective persecution. Ramon Navaratnam, former president of Transparency International, says most Malaysians are against the trial and against charging Anwar with sodomy. "The public perception is that the trial is politically motivated," Navaratnam tells TIME. "Most people think this trial is unnecessary and it is selective...
...Goldstone report—a report that has been called misleading and inimical to peace by such mainstream publications as the Economist and public officials such as Susan Rice, U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Mr. Rashid’s unquestioning acceptance of this report reveals his anti-Israel bias. While no one would deny that collateral damage occurred on both sides as a result of the Gaza War, Mr. Rashid’s intimation that Israel targeted these civilians out of pure malice is troubling. It has been well established that Israel fired upon Hamas operatives who cynically used civilian...