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...side-effects are minor—but rather because of fear that giving the vaccine to all girls will lead to an increase in sexual activity. Such an argument not only ignores the fact that women can contract HPV through non-consensual sex, but also reflects a dangerously na??ve mindset. The idea that young people can, and should, be scared into abstinence is simply false and leads uninformed teens to engage in unsafe sexual behavior. Rather, teens should be educated on the practices of safe sex and the risks associated with sexual intercourse so that they can make...
...benefit from reporting a student’s name, or exercising free speech for its own sake, does not always supersede the harm it does to the individual. Too much truth can be a decidedly bad thing, and blindly printing students’ names is a na??ve way of avoiding a complex moral decision...
...whole, extracurriculars, more than any other kind of organization, classify people by what they do, not where they come from. The notion that college-enforced communities, or “house pride” et al., can create more natural and diverse social groups is both na??ve and patronizing.If students really want to socialize more within their houses, they will surely give more money to House Committees to organize such events. If, as evidence suggests, they would rather devote their time and energy to stimulating activities alongside like-minded colleagues, well-meaning Community-seekers should cease in their...
...truly know the physics behind the computers we type at daily, or the biology of Tylenol, which we trust to rid us of the slightest headache? We do not understand the fruits of science, but we have no choice but to rely on the objects of our na??veté. The public fears what it cannot control, for it cannot control what it cannot comprehend: science. And it worries that scientists, taking advantage of its ignorance, will spiral out of control, that technology will subsume humanity. Such fears have been poignantly crystallized in movies such...
...Moiss Na??m is editor in chief of Foreign Policy magazine and author of Illicit: How Smugglers, Traffickers and Copycats Are Hijacking the Global Economy