Golub wanted to imagine for himself, and to make us acknowledge, the personhood of tyranny's agents.
Because there are no data available on the incidence of ONJ in the Swedish population, we could not determine the sensitivity, specificity, or negative predictive value of the evaluated algorithm, making us acknowledge another limitation of the present study.
It can be a scary thing for us to ask our friends, and furthermore our families and coworkers, to use language that makes us feel acknowledged and accepted when, in a lot of cases, these people have never been asked to do this before.
This is because of cognitive dissonance, a universal psychological trait that makes us loath to acknowledge our mistakes -- even to ourselves.
But as uncomfortable as it makes us, we must acknowledge that the differences observed may reflect biases that are insidiously interwoven into the basic fabric of the merit/reward system of science.
He made us all acknowledge the inexcusable bigotry inherent in our broken criminal justice system.
He was right that our desire for positive facts and things makes us awkward about acknowledging that negative facts or things are the truth-makers of negative truths.
That we're all comprised of "masculine" and "feminine" traits and that what makes us human is acknowledging our wholeness, our humanness.
It might make us uncomfortable or frustrated to acknowledge that this is still a reality in a country that elected -- and reelected -- a black president, but the truth is that we're not yet a post-racial society.
Having reiterated that banal truth, let us acknowledge that making art may be useless, but even made badly it is also indispensable.
