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...declined to comment for this article, writing in an e-mail, “I don’t discuss my personal life with the media,” but according to Kiely, New has said she would try to stay off any committee or ad hoc where conflict of interest could be an issue...
...shock,” they say it was not a prominent or openly discussed factor in departmental operations last spring. According to Watson, however, “a certain amount of conspiracy theorizing” formed over two incidents: a departmental meeting about an ad hoc case and the Paulin incident...
Four senior English professors said that the department received reports last fall that Summers appeared to pay little attention to the testimony of outside experts at a fall ad hoc committee on an English department hiring decision...
...possible but say they're ready to fight alone--with just a "coalition of the willing"--if the U.N. doesn't step up. They won't even try for a second vote unless they know they can win, since defeat could damage prospects for pulling together an ad hoc alliance...
...jawbone method isn't really science. Jerome Wakefield, a Rutgers professor of social work, says that while the DSM's authors do try to eliminate errors so that normal emotional reactions aren't diagnosed as disorders, "there's no systematic process here. Changes are made on a very ad hoc basis, where people say, 'Oh, my god, we forgot X.'" Others have even harsher criticism. Dr. Paul McHugh, who chairs the department of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, says the DSM has lost its usefulness partly because it has "permitted groups of 'experts' with...