Word: denialism
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...devices, he says, were fired as the others were--from grenade launchers--but unlike the two that the FBI admitted were fired at a concrete bunker, this second pair passed through the wooden main building of David Koresh's compound. FBI officials aren't ready to issue a categorical denial until the new investigation is completed, but they suspect McNulty is citing an inventory in which Rangers mislabeled two items as military gas projectiles. The inventory, they say, has since been corrected...
...part, the problem is misinformation. Explains Dr. Helene Gayle, director of AIDS prevention at the CDC: "First and foremost is the fact that this epidemic got cast as a white disease, particularly a white gay disease, and that lulled people into a sense of denial in the African-American community." The result: too many heterosexual African-American males still think it's perfectly safe to practice unsafe sex with female partners...
...words of Barton's suicide notes present some tantalizing enigmas. There is anger at the "people who greedily sought my destruction." Was this the world of the day traders? Then there is blame, regret and denial about his family. "I killed Leigh Ann because she was one of the main reasons for my demise ... She really couldn't help it, and I love her so much anyway." She was bludgeoned to death, her body hidden from the children in a closet. Mychelle ("my sweetheart") and Matthew ("my buddy"), he insisted, died "with little pain." He bashed their heads with...
...Scripps had had enough. The company went up for sale and, while on the market, lost its contract with the New York Daily News, which may well have been its lifeblood. UPI's contract with the also-struggling tabloid was good for $55,000 per month. In desperate denial, UPI offered to let the Daily News hang on to its service for free for months, hoping to win back the contract. Enter the Tennesseans...
...embarrassing but true: I'm a disposable-camera junkie. Ever since my last real camera started making pathetic whirring sounds as it struggled in vain to advance the film, I've lived in denial, telling myself I'd buy just one more disposable to tide me over. That was two years ago. Since then I've gone through a dozen, guiltily toting them to weddings, Caribbean vacations and weekends in the country. But I'm sick of grainy pictures that should have been great and puny flashes that make a walk in the woods look like a midnight stroll...