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...corruption within alternative medicine and that certain practitioners may not have the most principled of intentions. It is important to be critical and cautious when evaluating the efficacy of these therapies. At the same time, if one professes loyalty to the rigorous standards of modern science, one cannot dismiss novel alternative treatments as fake without first subjecting them to serious scientific scrutiny. Everyone involved must keep an open mind and resist the tendency to summarily reject alternative treatments which may initially appear strange, startling or implausible...
Others--and I am not among them--dismiss what they call the "black armband" reading of history, seeming to regard Aborigines as just another ethnic community. They also express concern for the future of the pastoral and mining industries which they see as threatened by Mabo...
Several weeks ago, when I first heard of RSI, I was quick to dismiss it as a '90s phenomenon that could only befall computer addicts, attached to their motherboards by a virtual umbilical cord. Alternatively, I wrote RSI off as a trendy psycho-somatic problem for humanities concentrators desperately in need of an extension...
Much harder to dismiss are child access prevention laws (or CAP laws), which hold adults--often parents and legal guardians--accountable if they allow guns to fall into underage hands. Shannan Wilber, attorney at the Youth Law Center in San Francisco, says that unlike parent-responsibility laws, CAP laws draw a direct causal relationship between adults and the crimes committed by juveniles. "Where there is a closer connection," she says, "such as a parent's possession of firearms and failure to keep them away from their kids, it's easier to connect that to a subsequent criminal...
WASHINGTON: The decision to dismiss the Paula Jones case was based on Arkansas law, not on the facts, but in politics, that'll do just fine...