Today's event was a first step in redressing the lazy stereotype of a post-truth public disinterested in evidence or experts, but there is further to go.
For instance, he says "Madame Bovary" does "a considerable injustice" by caricaturing the French middle class as stupidly philistine; the novel is "not a disinterested presentation of the evidence," and so its "uses to the historian as historian are severely limited".
For example, every time we hear about starving children, national disasters, the global sex trade or environmental calamity and feel numbed and disconnected or even disinterested, then we are evidencing the symptoms of overwhelm and resignation.
What seems most needed now is a dispassionate, disinterested analysis of all the evidence, one that would probe behind the published papers on mammography trials and seek to determine whether any flaws that exist are enough to invalidate their findings.
There is no convincing evidence for this convoluted advice, disinterested researchers say.
In these rejected poems, we feel that Plath is writing around a subject rather than emerging from deep inside it.Does this new evidence of Hughes's seemingly disinterested editorial involvement mean that he was not in some way responsible for her death?
Like the French legal system, the medium invites sober consideration of the evidence, the balancing of arguments and the disinterested search for truth.
This is mainly wishful thinking; little evidence that would be accepted by a disinterested observer has been presented to support this claim, and plenty of evidence supports the opposite claim.
"And apparently U.S. policymakers are incapable of or disinterested in distinguishing between PR propaganda and scientific and economic evidence.
Evidence of Han-era mechanical engineering comes largely from the choice observational writings of sometimes disinterested Confucian scholars.
