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...must be displaced by the chronicle of the "common man," and that such chronicles should rely on the discoveries of "anthropologists, economists, psychologists, and sociologists." This arguable proposition has increasingly become the conventional wisdom of academia, taught in all the better universities to young armies of new historians, who dismiss most of the traditions of political and cultural history as elitist, impressionistic and irrelevant. History as a narrative study of great men and great events? Obsolete. History as a branch of literature? Absurd...
...several years NASA's scientists failed to accept data on the Antarctic ozone hole that was before their eyes. The reason: computers prescreening data from monitoring satellites had been programmed to dismiss as suspicious presumably wild data showing a 30% or greater drop in ozone levels. After British scientists reported the deficit in 1985, NASA went back to its computer records, finally recognizing that the satellite data had been showing the hole all along...
Nonetheless, even the experts are reluctant to dismiss Hite out of hand. "It's very hard to get a representative group," says Quinley. "I wouldn't say it kills the whole thing." Berkeley Psychologist Bernard Apfelbaum, a Hite supporter, believes it is not important to get a completely representative sample when delving into the field of sex and love. By virtue of their willingness to participate in the survey, Hite's women may be unusual, he says, "but they are giving voice to a problem in ways other women cannot...
...Many will say it's chic to be gay at Yale," he says. "I certainly dismiss that. I'm not winning any popularity contests, certainly not for my sexuality...
Reagan's list of loonies included Iran, Libya, North Korea, Cuba and Nicaragua. In fact, this is a list of small states that have tormented the U.S., delivering pinpricks that America has found impossible either to tolerate or prevent. Admitting this, however, is difficult. Easier to dismiss it all as the work of crazy states. Reagan was certainly right that these countries are "united by their fanatical hatred of the United States." But that in itself is not proof of derangement. Hatred is a common, often useful, phenomenon in international relations. And fanaticism is a measure of passion, not irrationality...