Word: factually
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ARTICLES WITH ACCESSIBLE TEXT LIKE this one are needed at a time when efforts are being made to emasculate and undermine the teaching of evolutionary biology in high schools. It is great to see a national magazine put the factual evidence of evolution's vast, complex story out there for the lay public. ANDREW M. KOENIGSBERG, geologist Framingham, Massachusetts Via E-mail...
...Shachar's editorial, "Freedom to Limit Freedom" (Nov. 29), relies on a multitude of factual misrepresentations and dubious assertions in its advocacy of restrictions on freedom of speech. Ben-Shachar argues that voices that "exploit" free speech to argue against the predominant values of a "free" society should be silenced. Free speech, however, is not a means but an end in itself...
...turkey. Wattenberg fills 400 windy and repetitive pages with folksy statements ("Is there hope for American kids? You bet there is") and self-important quotations from his own previous work. His favorite word? Psephology (look it up). The book was also clearly rushed into print, riddled with typographical and factual errors that make the reader wonder what else the author may have got wrong. He says, for example, that Richard Allen Davis was convicted for the murder of Polly Klaas, when in fact a venue for his trial has not yet been chosen...
...fellowship winners, are a financial boon to their departments as well as to the University. Had Mansfield bothered to inquire which minority students received Harvard funding and which students had outside sources, he would have been forced to acknowledge the groundlessness of this generalization. Based on hasty generalizations and factual inaccuracies, Mansfield's claims are neither interested in an inquiry into the facts nor designed to promote a constructive discussion of the issues involved...
...condemn race baiting and other efforts to belittle, stigmatize, and/or de-legitimize persons whether because of race or because of gender, ethnicity or sexual orientation. As no doubt all members of this community demand, we simply expect that debate, about whatever subject, adhere to standards of intellectual honesty and factual accuracy. It is certainly ironic that those persons who champion the cause of standards the loudest are often the ones who make this expectation the most precarious...