Word: dissention
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...book titled Improbable Cause, written by Les Filotas, one of the dissenting air-safety board members, promises on its cover to expose the "deceit and dissent in the investigation." Filotas does that with a devastating accumulation of evidence spanning 553 pages. "Many of the experts involved in the investigation," says Filotas, "didn't realize they were participating in a cover...
However, as the organizers of Take Back the Night 1992, we believe that Take Back the Night must be about more. As Allen S. Galper insists in his dissent, it must confront the misogynist violence of such acts as the brutal murder of Mary Jo Frug as well as of the Law Revue's recent parody of her article on the anniversary of her death...
...their dissent, Liam T.A. Ford and Matthew J. McDonald criticize the "monotonous chant-mongers exhorting marchers to '--the patriarchy.'" Yet, at the same time, they say," Strive to stop violence against women." They fail to understand that the dominant patriarchal structure engenders widespread, systematic violence against women...
This same dissent labels Take Back the Night as "a wacko Left ideology-fest" and its organizers as "shrill feminists...with a bizarre political agenda...
...Every major intelligence failure over the last 20 or 40 years has been because the analysts tended to accept the conventional wisdom. The problem has not been a lack of dissent by the various agencies. The problem has come about when they all signed up to a view that was in fact wrong. One example was the conclusion ((before the 1990 invasion of Kuwait)) that Saddam Hussein would spend the next several years trying to rebuild Iraq after the Iran-Iraq war and not be looking for new conquests or new territory...