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...people say, 'Oh, my god, we forgot X.'" Others have even harsher criticism. Dr. Paul McHugh, who chairs the department of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, says the DSM has lost its usefulness partly because it has "permitted groups of 'experts' with a bias to propose the existence of conditions without anything more than a definition and a checklist of symptoms. This is just how witches used to be identified." He cites multiple-personality disorder as an example of an "imagined diagnosis"; while much of the evidence supporting its existence has been debunked, multiple...
...students in America have been female. Given that many more women are now going into law, it seems appropriate for the leadership at law schools to reflect the gender diversity of their student bodies. Nancy Hopkins, a biology professor, demonstrated three years ago that there was a bias against women in science at MIT by proving that the school had systematically discriminated against its female faculty in terms of salaries, office space, research and positions of leadership. She explained in a New York Times interview that “having women in power sends a message to young women that...
...leads to one conclusion: that it is better for the U.S. to act, even if it means taking the risk of acting alone, than it is to sit still. "It's not ideological with him. It's about leadership," says a senior adviser to Cheney. "If he has a bias, it's a bias for action...
...government. Bush’s order, however, essentially exempts religious groups from federal civil rights laws and non-discrimination policies. Giving religious groups a blank check to discriminate in hiring practices at the same time that secular groups are prohibited from doing so sets a policy of bias in favor of religious groups—a clear violation of the separation of church and state...
...four demonstrators, members of the Jewish Women for Justice in Israel/Palestine, distributed neon yellow fliers denouncing owner Hillel Stavis for pulling financial support from WBUR, a public radio station in Boston that some activists claim harbors anti-Israel bias...