Word: callousness
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Munch alleges that on both occasions the doctors were "very callous and not sympathetic at all." Other students with Munch reportedly agreed with this assessment...
Scientists themselves, like many of those at Denver, have been increasingly questioning their own role. Protesting science's callous use of human guinea pigs for experimentation, Dr. Richard M. Restak, a Washington neurologist, decries the fact that the prestigious National Institutes of Health refused to establish a code governing such experiments until its sponsored researchers were found guilty of injecting live cancer cells into uninformed subjects. Writing on the Op-Ed page of the New York Times, Restak voiced "a creepy realization that when left to their own devices, biomedical scientists are capable of some rather nasty mischief indeed...
More difficult to deal with is the problem of bad taste. Humor that tries to squeeze laughs out of other peoples' misery in the snugness of a Harvard theater, among the comfortable familiarity of jokes about stocks and bonds and investment bankers is somehow worse than callous; along those lines, this show must be the worst since the last time Bob Hope played the Nixon White House. Sexism and class insularity shoves the show forward. "When father was alive we were so poor we used to get foreign aid from Bangladesh!" cracks an actor. 'Excellent joke!" screams the happiest spectator...
More problematical is the fratricide to which Constance Kent confessed in 1865. A plain girl evidently slated for spinsterhood, Constance had been blighted by a callous stepmother. At 16, Constance cut the throat of her 3½-year-old half brother with such violence that the head was nearly severed. She then stuffed the body into the family privy. When the judge passed the death sentence (later commuted to life), his voice choked with sobs, and a local paper reported that the jury and "the greater part of the assembly" wept over the severity of the verdict...