Word: biased
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...commend you for your presentation of the "Nature vs. Nurture" debate. Few people take the time to do their homework and present the results in an organized manner. But it is not without the customary journalistic bias that you write...
...least some students will now know personally that whatever bias or imperfections they think exists doesn't exist," he added...
Fearful of losing federal dollars for their hard-pressed communities, Northern mayors charged that the report was yet another example of federal bias against their region. It is their citizens' taxes, they argued, that helped build the military installations and technological institutions that have contributed to the boom in the Sunbelt. Complained McCabe: "It's as if we should be Arabs and fold up our tents to move South." Protested Cleveland Mayor George Voinovich: "We're dealing with human beings, not checkers...
...Government has traditionally frowned on homosexual employees. Anti-gay discrimination peaked during the McCarthy era, when several hundred homosexuals were fired from the Central Intelligence Agency, Pentagon and State Department. But since then, gay activists have worn down the bias against them in all Government branches except the military and intelligence agencies, which still ban gays on the ground that they are more susceptible to blackmail, and hence greater security risks, than heterosexuals...
...This bias in written history, especially noticeable in the history of recent, controversial events, makes cogent analysis of complex issues quite difficult: Imagine reading John Reed's The Ten Days That Shook the World without knowing Reed's support for Lenin. Unfortunately the biases of some modern historians are not as well known as those of Reed. Wouldn't people read William Shawcross' book, Sideshow: Kissinger, Nixon and the Destruction of Cambodia--and especially the section where he places the ultimate responsibility for the Cambodian tragedy directly upon the United States--more closely if they knew that he had stated...