Word: denialism
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Maher and his crew travel the world in an effort to expose, in the words of director Larry Charles, “the hilarious logic” at the core of organized religion. The situations and subjects portrayed consistently reveal the creepy state of denial in which religious leaders settle themselves; they refuse to acknowledge both older and more modern challenges to faith that Maher forces them to confront in an age when religion is the cause of so much turmoil, so much war, and, let’s face it, so much awkward porn. (Note: “Religulous?...
...Anyone who doubts that the U.S. is heading for recession is living in denial. On an annualized basis, real retail sales and industrial production are both declining. Unemployment is already at its highest level in five years. The question is whether we're headed for a short, relatively mild recession like that of 2001 - or a latter-day version of what the world went through in the 1930s: Depression...
...health infrastructure make it hard to ensure that patients take the daily pills or frequent injections they must receive for six months to eradicate the infection. Stopping treatment too early allows the small population of drug-resistant strains to survive and keep the infection going. "We are still in denial about how bad this problem is and how much worse it's going to get," says Dr. Jim Kim, head of Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School and a co-founder of Partners in Health, a global-health aid organization. "We are at the pre-antibiotic era for TB again...
...when they are, spotty monitoring and poor health infrastructure make it hard to ensure that patients take their daily doses for the six months that are needed to eradicate the infection--all of which encourages drug-resistant strains to survive and keep the disease going. "We are still in denial about how bad this problem is and how much worse it's going to get," says Dr. Jim Kim, head of social medicine at Harvard Medical School...
...damning. Many Alaskans have sympathy for the anxiety and frustration the Palins felt over Wooten's continued employment. In Anchorage, I've heard time and again that Palin could have avoided further scrutiny with a single convivial mea culpa at the outset, apologizing in particular for her initial inaccurate denial that anyone in her administration, including herself, had contacted Monegan about Wooten. Stapleton says the firing was a personnel matter that the state attorney general advised Palin not to comment on initially. But still, Alaskans say that if Palin had ignored that advice and spoken openly to the public...