Word: dissenter
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...response to the editorial dissent, "Guns Aren't the Problem" (Opinion, April 26) by Noah Oppenheim and Adam Taub, I encourage both of them to read the "Living Through Littleton" editorial more closely. They claim that the staff makes "vague, blanket demands." On the contrary, the staff specifically argues against gun control laws in Colorado and other states from being loosened or revoked, and against the NRA campaign for gun concealment. Oppenheim and Taub also write, "concerned citizens ought to look deeper and discern the less obvious forces". If the two editors look carefully, they will notice that the editorial...
...there is dissent even within the "ultra-Darwinist" ranks. M.I.T. linguist Steven Pinker finds the ideas of memetics intriguing and occasionally even useful but doesn't quite believe it's a science. Nor does he accept the nest-of-memes view of consciousness. "To be honest, I don't even know what that means," admits Pinker. The problem, he says, is that memetics assumes the brain is essentially passive, like a Petri dish awaiting infection. It doesn't account for the self that responds subjectively, that feels sensations such as love, envy and pain. "Babies are conscious," he points...
...truth is not pretty: a Chinese crackdown on domestic dissent harsher than anything since Tiananmen in 1989; allegations of a concerted campaign of espionage in U.S. nuclear labs; an American trade deficit with China of $57 billion that is second only to the nation's deficit with Japan; and a brewing showdown over providing Taiwan with defense systems against China's ballistic-missile buildup. Relations between Washington and Beijing are frostier than they have been for years, and some in Congress are even talking as if China were the new cold war enemy...
...shocked and dismayed that Jenny E. Heller (Dissent, March 16) would even begin to condone the sort of violent, intimidating protests that have occurred around family planning clinics...
...shocked and dismayed that Jenny E. Heller (Dissent, March 16) would even begin to condone the sort of violent, intimidating protests that have occurred around family planning clinics...