Word: denialism
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...nationally recognized psychologist will depart Harvard for Tufts next semester, a year after her tenure denial surprised experts in the field...
...immediate aftermath of 9/11 few in the Muslim mainstream identified with the terror attacks. That much was obvious from the wave of denial that blamed the attacks on the Mossad or the CIA. The truth - that the callous murder of almost 3,000 civilians was carried out by 19 Arab men who considered themselves devout and pious Muslims carrying out a blessed act - was too horrific to swallow. Cowardly attacks on civilians elicited little pride in the Muslim world, and plenty of revulsion. That was why they had to be blamed on somebody else...
...Kathmandu. And in a bizarrely bold move, a new city-center nightclub, called Platinum, aimed specifically at Nepal's high society, is also due to open this month. "A lot of people still believe the risk is not real," says Bhandari, the media mogul. "There's a degree of denial. History tells us there are always parties and merriment just before regimes fall...
...Zayed Center for Coordination and Follow-up said on its website that it promotes the unification of Arab nations through historical and cultural education, but students were disturbed to find that the center also supported speakers and authors whose works celebrated Holocaust denial and accused the U.S. of staging the Sept. 11 attacks...
...smooth and understated at the investigation into the apparent suicide of David Kelly, the former government weapons expert who shared with a BBC reporter his doubts about the government's case for war, got dragged before parliamentary committees and then took his own life. Campbell had a denial ready for the central question of whether he had influenced the words used in the British claim that Iraq could deploy weapons of mass destruction in 45 minutes: "I had no input, output, influence upon them whatsoever at any stage in the process." But the case is hardly closed. There has been...