Word: dismissiveness
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Investigators cannot dismiss the possibility that they are dealing with a new killer, given the emergence of such ailments as Legionnaires' disease, toxic-shock syndrome and AIDS over the past two decades. Modern life is constantly creating new opportunities for microbes, warns author and infectious-disease specialist Dr. Richard Krause of the National Institutes of Health. Legionnaires', he notes, developed because air-conditioning ducts created a new breeding ground for bacteria; toxic shock was linked with the introduction of highly absorbent tampons and AIDS with population shifts and changing sexual mores. At week's end investigators were focusing...
...through its terminal illnesses, from corruption in the Kremlin to the deadly pollution of the Urals and the haunted desolation of Kolyma, center of the Siberian gulags. The book's powerful sense of place and its clarity about events that confused many of the participants will shame those who dismiss books written by reporters as "mere journalism...
Epps tends to dismiss his his most venomous critics, most of whom are limited by their four-year attention spans, who he says expect too much too fast...
Over the years Kevorkian has been generous to his adversaries in the church, - the press, the medical profession, even the euthanasia movement. Every time he speaks or writes he hands them ammunition to dismiss him as a psychopath. "If I were Satan and I was helping a suffering person end his life, would that make a difference?" he asks. "Any person who does this is going to have an image problem." That larger-than-death image grew with each story of his early experiments transfusing blood from cadavers to live patients, his paintings of comas and fevers, his bright-eyed...
...both Patterson and Appiah say it would be unfair to dismiss all Afrocentric scholarship as unfair or illegitimate...