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...corroborating accounts of the miracles, moderates argue, requires a kind of greasy logic that determines the outcome before the inquiry even begins. If miracles are defined as things that can't possibly happen, then of course the Bible's miracles must not have. "There is an anti-supernaturalist bias," says Harris. "Even if we had a sworn affidavit from a pathologist that Jesus was alive and well, a person would not believe it if he believed in principle that no dead man could ever rise. No evidence would possibly be sufficient...
...become clear what the defense strategy is. Its interest is not the investigation of racial bias, but the effective use of the race card as a gag and a restraint on public opinion no less than on public officials. The true strategy, it is now apparent, is to simply demolish public support for the prosecution by destroying the reputations of each and every individual police officer brought before the court. Breaking legal rules with a sense of impunity and seeking to humiliate public opinion into acquiescence is not a very lofty standard for the American institution of due process. Rather...
Often there is disagreement on these choices. I don't think what we print and what we don't is generally reflective of an institutional bias, though this concern has been raised in the past...
Spurr said the timing of the visit--four days after a newspaper article detailed her induction as a pagan high priestess--and comments made by the social worker show religious bias...
Will The Crimson be too kind to itself--as outsiders might conclude--or too harsh, in an effort to prevent appearances of bias...