Word: distorted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cultural-have been employed in the past as excuses for discrimination. Throughout history, scientific findings have been twisted to serve the social theories of supremacists from ancient Greece to Nazi Germany to separate and unequal America. Racist arguments falsely claiming the intellectual superiority of one race over another can distort any discussion of racial differences...
...gigantic hoax. A newly expanded and somewhat sanitized version of Hitler's Table Talk has been prepared in West Germany. At first such offerings seem variations on Comedian Mel Brooks' idea for a Busby Berkeley-type musical called Springtime for Hitler. In fact, they help to distort evidence and pervert history...
...disagree with a theory, say so. Learn about it so you can fight it better. (Any Nat Sci 4 student could tell you that there is a required article this semester which denies any significant genetic differences between races.) But don't slander it, distort it, and try to wipe it from the face of the earth...
...throw out zany ideas, you may say, it's all part of the process which ultimately leads to the truth and a more accurate conception of the universe. Maybe so. But academics also have a responsibility to avoid abusing the faith people put in them. They should not intentionally distort knowledge. And didn't distortions of Darwin's theory of "survival of the fittest" and belief in inherent genetic inferiority lead once to the death of six million Jews...
...Brookings Institution's Joseph Pechman, who is a member of TIME's Board of Economists, was "very, very unhappy" with the Ullman plan. He warned that it is likely to dangerously distort the job market. His point: "It encourages employers to substitute part-time workers for full-time workers and low-income workers for moderate-income workers." For example, in order to double the tax credit available to it under the plan, a company may decide to hire two marginally qualified workers at $5,000 apiece rather than one more skilled person...