When we say "we need benefits to live because you hollowed out our towns in pursuit of a flawed economic doctrine," we are castigated for being workshy, and told we only have ourselves to blame.
He deftly buried the deeply flawed strategic doctrine that launched an unnecessary war with Iraq and posited military force as the chief tool of US statecraft.
Such conclusions are based on the mistaken doctrine of biological determinism, the flawed assumption that all behavior reduces simply to genes (Gould 1981; Lewontin et al. 1984; Lewontin 1993; Rose 1997).
But this "doctrine" is based in a flawed understanding of sin, is unsustainable in practice, and is only brought up when it can be ammunition in culture wars.
But here, he seems far too eager to minimize the threat, perhaps fearing that by conceding any aspect of the Bush doctrine, he somehow legitimizes the whole flawed approach.
But the analogy is hopelessly flawed, because the typical Catholic hospital doesn't require its employees to follow Catholic doctrine in their personal lives — on sexual matters or anything else.
Is intelligence inherently flawed?
