Word: opinionizing
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...Wikipedia’s trustworthyness. In the site’s defense stands a huge corps of writers in a variety of fields, including such weighty entities as the Michigan State Supreme Court (which cited Wikipedia for information about “positional aslphyxia” in a 2004 opinion). These people may not explicitly lend their credence to the project (though some certainly have), but they give it de facto support by including it on their works cited pages...
Skocpol’s opinion that the University is suffering from a “crisis of governance and leadership” was shared by the overwhelmingly majority of professors who spoke, many of whom criticized Summers for stifling debate and intimidating professors into silence...
...formidable Boston biotechnology community and an overwhelming Democratic majority in the Massachusetts State Legislature. We speculate that this move may be aimed at nothing more than building arch-conservative credentials for the purposes of a 2008 presidential run. Romney is certainly entitled to hold any sort of personal opinion he chooses about the morality of embryonic stem cell research, but wasting the legislature’s time and energy in order to add another line to his résumé disrespects both the very office that he holds and the noble goals of embryonic stem cell research...
...question in hand as much as tweaking the issue to some form of narrow political advantage. Media preoccupation with the “horse race” between the two parties feeds into this and makes it increasingly harder to believe that politicians could really hold a controversial opinion out of pure conviction...
With completely new leadership and an ambitious agenda for the coming months—including drafting a position paper to outline students’ opinion on the upcoming curricular review, increasing representatives’ accountability to their districts, and vetting major structural changes to the UC—inexperienced representatives will have much to familiarize themselves with...