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...scale with statements like "I was anonymous during the study," "I was watched during the study" and "Others were paying attention to my behavior during the study." Again, the people wearing sunglasses scored significantly higher on the perception of anonymity study, even though they all rationally knew the glasses made no difference. (See the 25 crimes of the century...
...Ohio State University and a former FDA economist, then tried to account for the overall cost of illness, factoring in every expense, from onetime costs for prescription medication to losses in "quality of life" - a dollars-and-cents picture of exactly how miserable that bout with a bad falafel made you. "The study really illustrates just how serious foodborne illness is as a problem in society," says Scharff, who also ranked all 50 states by total costs of illness and costs per case...
Obama’s recent choice to reauthorize the Patriot Act with no additional privacy protections is more than disappointing—it is disingenuous. President Obama campaigned on a platform of transparency and strengthening civil liberties, and, although he made no commitments to letting the Patriot Act expire, he did, according to his own campaign literature, consistently assert that, “He would support a Patriot Act that would strengthen civil liberties without sacrificing the tools that law enforcement needs to keep us safe.” Instead, Obama’s extended support for the tenets...
...with overwhelming support in Congress, but this complicity is neither proof of the efficacy of the Patriot Act nor does it justify this continued infringement on a right to privacy. Similarly, the dearth of successful terrorist attacks since 9/11 is not an adequate indicator that we have been made safer by the Patriot Act—to conjecture as such is to ignore the complex matrix that defines national security...
...provide an adequate check on the surveillance state due to the politicization of judges. It would be risible to suggest that any judicial system is apolitical, but it is insulting to categorically impugn the judicial temperament of the many sober men and women on the bench who have made it their life’s work to interpret the complex issues of American constitutional law. Citing the politicization of the judiciary to delegitimize its judgments on one issue delegitimizes our entire judicial system, since it calls into question the fitness of our judges to adjudicate any issue...