Word: worthlessness
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...proved -- becomes a kind of dishonesty. The Washington Post once got in trouble for publishing a rumor without proof it was true, and defended itself editorially on grounds that, well, it's true there was a rumor. Much chortling and indignation at that. But it's not a worthless point. Past profiles of Clinton, in TIME and elsewhere, have reported vague rumors about marital infidelity as exactly that, and rightly...
...food that is being grown is staying in the countryside. Collective and state farms are refusing to sell to the new government in the same way that peasants once held back / their harvest from the Bolsheviks. They want a better deal -- and that means trade in goods, not in worthless paper rubles...
Academic freedom is academic freedom. It is the unmitigated right of tenured academics to say and publish whatever they want--including what others may regard as worthless or virulent. And universities--because of their special relationship with the realm of knowledge--must be particularly wary of excluding ideas of any kind...
...Latin for "I will please") effect. To most laymen and most conventional doctors, placebo means "fake" -- phony medicine doled out to please a whiny patient or fed to the control group in a scientific experiment. If the medicine being tested does no better than the placebo, then it's worthless, because the placebo does nothing...
...real bone of contention, of course, is the role played by Reagan's military escalation of the 1980s. It's hard to argue that this was worthless or counterproductive and impossible to know how the world would look today if America had followed a different course. But a few skeptical points might be kept in mind...