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...circumspect about whom they approve. An irrevocable tenured position is a huge risk to take when a young scholar's work may later become irrelevent, obsolete or discredited. (Occasionally, this happens after the person has already received tenure--one of the primary flaws of the tenure system.) The strong bias against offering tenure is understandable and unavoidable, but destructive nonetheless...
...only bias of the aspirin study was not unusual. As an article in last week's Journal of the American Medical Association points out, medical research often appears to ignore women. In studies of everything from the link between smoking and cataracts to the benefits of eating fish after having heart attacks, the subjects have all been men. That concerns some medical experts and political leaders...
...wish to register my protest at the extreme bias and double-standards applied by the American media to the Azerbaijani cause. While we deplore suppression of "freedom" and "civil rights" in Eastern Europe, China and other non-Muslim parts of the world, and while we actively encourage "freedom-fighters" against totalitarian regimes wherever they may be, we draw the line when it comes to Muslim people anywhere demanding these same rights of self-determination...
Mencken was really a man of his times, and despite his reputation as a vitriolic critic of American hypocrisy and greed, he shared more than a little intellectual common ground with those who perpetuated a status quo based on race, class, gender and religious bias...
There are worse transgressions. Burnham cites cases of illegal IRS wiretapping, a bias against liberals and a frequent blind eye turned to its own regulations. Two years ago, the House Commerce, Consumer and Monetary Affairs subcommittee convened hearings on IRS procedures. Two weeks ago, the service announced a new ethics plan...