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...four polling experts interviewed yesterday raised concerns about potential bias in the response pool...
Fishman, who is president of the American Academy of Pain Medicine, laments the way insurance plans favor quick pharmaceutical fixes over the kinds of physical and psychological therapies that chronic-pain patients need. The bias toward drug treatment is not only bad medicine but is also expensive. "When somebody comes in with 25 years of chronic pain," says Fishman, "I might sit with them for 90 minutes to get the beginning of the story, to really understand what's happening. The insurers would rather pay me $1,000 to do a 20-minute injection than pay me a fraction...
...critique proves more valuable is in his discussion of the problems with Harvard’s current academic structure: there are major flaws in the current Core Curriculum, the academic advising system, and even the apathy of some professors and teaching fellows. But these descriptions succumb to an inherent bias. Douthat blasts the humanities for inflating grades—he argues that it’s a reaction to their “retreat into irrelevance”—and neglecting to prepare those students who are not headed for professorships of their own. Perhaps the history...
Dershowitz’s comments came in response to widespread allegations of academic bias within Columbia’s MEALAC department. Some allege that faculty members within the department have forced their pro-Palestinian views onto students inside the classroom...
...January, Dershowitz publicly urged an investigation after learning of alleged classroom bias by Columbia MEALAC professor Joseph Massad. The allegations came to light in “Columbia Unbecoming,” a film made by the David Project, a Boston-based Zionist advocacy group. Massad has been accused of asking a student to leave his classroom unless she supported his view on alleged atrocities committed by Israelis against Palestinians...