Word: factualism
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Many scientists too admire the show for its faithfulness to the scientific method, if not to factual science. "They have a respect for the way science and engineering work," says Louis Friedman, a former programs director at Pasadena's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. "For example, when you make measurements of a planet and try to determine its atmosphere, then get into the transporter ... well, if you had a transporter that's probably how you'd do it. They make it believable because they go through a reasonable process...
Film-makers, reporters, journalists and others whose job it is to portray the truth and provide factual information are always confronted with moral dilemmas about to what extent they should allow themselves to get personally involved. Rascoff basically blasts James, Marx and Gilbert for not feeling any morals in the situation of the Agee family blackout...
...certain Oklahoma churches this fall, the Christian Coalition is handing out voter guides that contain information about the positions held by the two candidates for the state's open U.S. Senate seat, James Inhofe and Dave McCurdy. Outwardly unbiased and factual, the voter guide says McCurdy, a Democrat, supports "banning ownership of legal firearms," a fairly misleading statement based on McCurdy's vote for the crime bill, which included a ban on 19 types of assault weapons...
There is much truth to the staff's position; if Clarke meant to present the theories in the first paragraph of her letter to the editors as factual information, then she is guilty of an error in judgment at best and unacceptable prejudice at worst...
...couple of years now, The Crimson has had columns on computers run on page three of the Tuesday edition. Typically, the people who write these columns are quite knowledgeable about their subject. And while you may not agree with their views, its difficult to fault them on factual grounds...