Word: orwellianisms
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...Victor Strasburger, professor of pediatrics at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine and a spokesperson for the American Academy of Pediatrics, says "using advertising in a positive way just doesn't sit right with me. It's Orwellian. To put it bluntly, advertising to children under the age of seven or eight is electronic child abuse. I think we ought to leave kids who are under seven or eight out of all advertising...
...uncomfortable with “creationists touting legitimate science credentials to add credence to their preposterous views,” as Johnstone Professor of Psychology Steven Pinker commented in an e-mail, to deny such students a Ph.D. would be to start down a slippery slope of almost Orwellian intolerance. Nevertheless, universities have a responsibility to their students to carefully vet candidates for scientific teaching posts to ensure that privately held beliefs incompatible with scientific theory do not make their way into the classroom. Still, we believe that in the end, scientists should be judged on their work?...
When Harvard scientists said they would create human embryos for use in stem-cell studies, Romney blasted the plan as “Orwellian in scope.” And when Harvard’s Kennedy School invited former Iranian president Mohammad Khatami to speak there Sept. 10, Romney called that move “a disgrace to the memory of all Americans who have lost their lives at the hands of extremists...
...more obtrusive punishments on people who have not been convicted of a crime. You don’t have to be a Montana libertarian—always on the lookout for the U.N.’s Blackhawk helicopters—to see this as another step toward an Orwellian world where the government has a lock-iron grip on individual actions in the name of health and safety...
...believe it crosses a very bright line to take sperm and eggs in the laboratory and start creating human life...It is Orwellian in scope,” he said in remarks at Lesley University, a block north of the Science Center, according to The Associated Press. “In laboratories, you could have trays of new embryos being created. It’s almost like the movie, ‘The Matrix...