Word: factualism
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...cover story was written by Associate Editor John Leo, while Staff Writer Claudia Wallis summed up the medical aspects of herpes and possible cures. Both stories were edited by William F. Ewald and checked for factual accuracy by Reporter-Researcher Nancy Pierce Williamson. As Wallis concludes, "Herpes is insidious, but it doesn't have to be a tragedy." The potential tragedy would be a continuing and pervasive public ignorance of what herpes is and how its estimated 20 million sufferers in the U.S. should react...
...wrong with him." Drake, who said she likes to write too, disagreed. "This man is a writer and writers are strange. He is not stranger than they are because he was infatuated with Jodie Foster. He shot four people." The argument turned on whether poetry should be considered factual or if, as Prosecutor Roger Adelman had insisted during the trial, fictional. "Poetry is not fiction," Lassiter argued vehemently. They all tended to agree. To make sure, they requested a dictionary to look up the definitions of "poetry" and "fiction," but the judge turned them down...
Although Butterfield's vision of China is bleak, he never degenerates into spite. The approach is factual and dispassionate, the work detailed and well-documented. Butterfield's conclusions are not the result of one or two conversations, but of dozens of interviews, penetrating observations, and a deep understanding of Chinese traditions. He compiles an impressive array of contacts and uses them well, giving us not a blind and hateful rejection of Chinese communism, but a precise analysis of its problems...
First, to correct the factual errors. It is not only GSA members who are upset--alumni, professors, staff, and non-gay students are also concerned and have signed the petition Nor is it true that Pattullo was "clearly speaking as a layman" by signing his title and using the first person plural ("we would think [the discouragement of homosexuality] a good thing"), he suggests that his views reflect the policy of the Center...
...more disturbing than the factual errors is Engelmayer's one-sided discussion of chilling effects. Although he worries that calling for an investigation might inhibit candid discourse. Engelmayer neglects the effects of unchallenged digotry on academic research and personal freedom Given Pattullo's publicly stated anti-gay stance, the past performance of the professions involved, and the case with which support for "negative social pressures" might interfere with professional conduct in running a research center, it is not surprising to find people afraid to be open about their sexual orientation, nor would it be surprising to find people afraid...