Word: denialism
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...move was unprecedented in the commission's history and was more surprising because Byron's operator, Chicago's Commonwealth Edison, is regarded as the most experienced atomic power generator in the U.S. Though Commonwealth is appealing the decision, the NRC'S denial undoubtedly helped accelerate the loss of faith in nuclear power among investors and consumers...
That statement typified the 26-year-old, agency's traditionally adamant support for affirmative action approaches to discrimination and denial of equal protection. Established by the Civil Rights Act of 1957, the Commission serves primarily to investigate and study alleged civil rights violations on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, age, handicap, or national origin and to monitor and evaluate Federal laws and policies on civil rights. Although the Commission does not have powers of enforcement, it was instrumental in shaping federal attitudes toward discrimination. It also evaluates and criticizes federal programs and recommends changes to Congress...
This high-principled denial of reality inspired the lunatic crusade against masturbation, which various eminent doctors declared a cause of blindness, consumption, dyspepsia, vertigo, epilepsy, madness and early death. One doctor recommended warning the guilty: "In three months you will be a dead man." Others prescribed various girdles to be worn at night...
...choir of pacifism which proclaims that only peace counts, all else is relative... a Pope has the courage to utter the ancient word-the responsibility for each evil rests in man as a sinner. There will be no escape from wars, from hunger, from misery, from racial discrimination, from denial of human rights, and not even from missiles, if our hearts are not changed." Said Italian Writer Carlo Bo: "The Pope intends to say, If we really want peace, we must make the first step, we must forget offenses and offer the bread of love and charity.' " The visit...
...prefer the particular to the universal, the sobering fact to the examinating myth, required both courage and self-denial," Boorstin praises Herodotus and Thucydides, the pathbreaking Greek historians. He demonstrates such courage and self-denial: The Discoverers is chock-full of particulars and laced with sobering facts. We see how the botanist Linnaeus originated the idea of species by looking at the sex organs of plants (and how he inspired Charles Darwin's grandfather to write lyric poems about plants' amours). We learn how fastidious anatomists preserved for centuries their ignorance about the true form of the human body...