Word: validities
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...some problems because of his upbringing, however. "Having this kind of heritage makes my life a great deal more confusing" with respect to his own relationships, he wrote. "For most people, the relationship options are fairly constrained. For me, there are all these options that seem perfectly valid. Choosing between them is a task and a half...
Baloney. "Alternative medicine" is merely a politically correct term for what used to be called quackery. Any alternative therapy that can be proved valid will swiftly be incorporated into mainstream medicine. Any "medicine" that is based on myth, irrationality and deception will eventually be rejected. "Once the public finds out what homeopathy is," predicts Dr. John Renner, head of the National Council for Reliable Health Information, "once they find out that chlorophyll is necessary for plant life but not human life, they're going to turn on these alternative groups...
Policy Makes Valid Points...
Even though I'm bisexual, I think the point raised in the dissent ("A Thinly Veiled Bias," Nov. 2) is valid. Tossing a homophobic straight kid from the Midwest into a living situation with a queer roommate and forcing them to live together isn't likely to do anyone any good. In my opinion, a queer kid should have just as much right to demand that he be removed from a living situation with a straight person because he is not comfortable having to co-habitate with a homophobe, even if that person is mostly civil...
...will not, undergo the trying scientific scrutiny that evolution has been subjected to for years, largely because its proponents understand that it would fail to pass a test of logic and the scientific method. Whereas evolution has years of documented research proving convincingly that it is a valid theory, there is no scientific evidence to support creationism and little to support the "Young Universe" theory. Instead, the changes in educational standards instituted by the Board will have long-term detrimental effects on the quality of education in Kansas public schools and will only harm the students whom they were designed...