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Although breaking the bias against condom ads in magazine advertising was rough going at first, the pages of Ms., Cosmopolitan and Mademoiselle, among others, regularly feature attractive models asking female readers, "Would you ( buy a condom for this man?" or "Why take your fears to bed?" Purrs one ad: "When you place a new Trojan for Women in his hands, it will show you're thinking about his health...
EEPC officials say they are forced to seekfunding for their research from companies who havea vested interest in the outcome, but that theyhave set up systems to safeguard againstunobjective results. They concede, though, thatcharges of bias will inevitably accompany theirresearch as it is released into the general policydebate because of the way they must raise money...
...investigators' final report debunking Benveniste's research did not imply that there had been fraud. But it did conclude that the experiments were flawed and that no substantial effort had been made to exclude systematic error, including observer bias. Reported Maddox and his team: "We believe the laboratory has fostered and then cherished a delusion about the interpretation of its data." The report expressed dismay that the salaries of two of Benveniste's colleagues had been paid by a French supplier of homeopathic medicines. The Nature investigators admitted, however, that the same firm had paid their hotel bill...
...brief argues that if Harvard's objections are sustained, the ruling would establish a new precedent that would bias elections in the employer's favor. It argues that employers have access to voters' opinions through supervisors, while unions have no other means than polling to elicit such information...
...past several years, Iran has been busy making itself the world's odd man out: ignoring United Nations efforts to end its war with Iraq, boycotting the U.N. Security Council because of its alleged anti-Tehran bias, attacking neutral shipping in the Persian Gulf. Last week it paid the price for its self-imposed isolation. Twice it sought an international condemnation of the U.S. on an issue on which Washington would otherwise have been vulnerable, the July 3 shootdown of Iran Air Flight 655 over the gulf. But twice it came away with nothing...