Word: mistakenness
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Some council members have argued that it does not matter what a student's race or gender is, so long as he or she can represent diverse views. This view is doubly mistaken: first, in the presumption that one's personal background is irrelevant to council decision-making, and second in the idea that there is nothing inherently wrong with the council's being largely composed of white males...
When it comes to treating pain in children, the medical profession has a checkered history. Until the 1970s, the mistaken idea that babies do not feel pain was widely accepted, and infants undergoing major surgery were often given little or no anesthesia, just drugs to paralyze them temporarily. "The reluctance to use anesthesia was not due to doctors' being mean and nasty," Berde says. "There were real risks. It was an era when some babies did die from anesthesia, especially the ones who were very sick. So if you didn't know how to anesthetize them safely, it was easier...
...lead to similar problems. In addition, they must usually be removed before the patient goes home, even though he or she may still be in pain. Berde has found that many people are reluctant to take pain medication at home, or give it to their children, in the mistaken fear that they will become addicts...
...with finer and fairer values. But genes are barely less important today. There is, of course, the sensitive issue of intelligence. Many people think of the SAT as a genetic marker every bit as clinical as that contained in a syringe of blood. The folks who believe this are mistaken. But even the politically correct position--that "intelligence" is actually a bundle of different mental capabilities that people have in varying amounts, and that these capabilities can be strongly affected by environmental factors--leaves room for a large genetic component. Few Ashkenazi Jews, I suspect, would trade their genes...
...ANGELES-A group of students and non-University of Southern California(USC) professor were mistaken for Local 11 members as they gathered in Hahn Plaza Tuesday afternoon, sparking fury and complaints to the Department of Public Safety...