One of the attorneys working for the plaintiffs who spoke with this reporter said that the questions are improperly framed and give the matter a false equivalency — that is not necessary to sacrifice jobs and economic growth in the name of preserving human health and environmental stewardship.
That created a false equivalency that legitimized the thoroughly discredited view that vaccines are dangerous, according to a report last year in the American Journal of Public Health.
Brooks starts the year off strong in the first paragraph of his first column of 2011, dreaming up a Brooks's Law equivalency that has yet to even occur!
In "My Hunt for Moscow Gold," about Gus Hall, the late American Communist Party leader (Op-Ed, Oct. 21), Victor Navasky commits the same sin of moral equivalency that has been a stain on the American left since the beginning of the cold war.
You might remember what happened: the sense of inevitability about Hillary Clinton's rise, the damaging false equivalency that resulted, the free advertising provided in live coverage of Donald Trump's rallies and speeches, the crazily swinging "needle" on the New York Times website.
She identifies the UN as the book's villain and criticizes the UN's practise of moral equivalency that treats both sides equally even though one side is clearly dominant and brutally oppressive.
It is comforting for its mind-numbing qualities but it also reinforces a false equivalency that all media is the same; to be idly luxuriated in, Shiraz in hand, dog by feet, as you chill out and forget the world after a hard day.
