Word: suggestion
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...genetic information so questionable and potentially harmful? Philosophical disputes aside, many genetic tests suggest only an individual's heightened predisposition to a certain disorder but do not make a conclusive statement about a person's condition. In the absence of any regulation, this amounts to the undesirable result that state residents may be denied health insurance and employment on the basis of uncertain personal characteristics...
...suggest that Helfer would be wise to expand his sample size. Such casual empiricism is not warranted in light of available evidence. In 1954, 41 percent of adults in the U.S. thought that smoking is one of the causes of lung cancer, compared to 66 percent by 1964. Similarly, awareness has increased over time of the link between tobacco use and 25 or so other diseases. The causality is not rationally challenged today. In the '50s, however, the harmful effects of smoking were certainly not, as Helfer glibly declares, widely perceived...
...demonstration of the cingulate cortex's importance to consciousness, Damasio recalls a patient he calls L. After a comparatively minor stroke, she became bedridden, lying utterly still and mute for six months even though her physical condition seemed to suggest she could have resumed her daily life. During her ordeal, she later told Damasio, she felt absolutely no desire to speak or move. "Her mind," he says, "had not been imprisoned in the jail of her immobility. Instead it appeared that there had not been much mind at all, and nothing that would resemble consciousness." It turned out that...
Although many Harvard administrators suggest the situation seems not to be out of control as of yet, Associate Dean David Illingworth says if there is enough demand for such services, the College will supply them...
...find it ironic that a piece ("Sensationalism Does Not Instill Pride," Oct. 13) that accuses the BGLTSA of co-opting the silence of closeted people, moderately gay people and the poor Nike logo quotes a suicide note to suggest that queer visibility kills queers. Indeed, it isn't the threat of murder, disownment and discrimination in every walk of life that keeps people in the closet, the authors claim, but sexually explicit posters and publicly queer peers, making gays their own worst gaybashers...