Although proponents of originalism claim that it is a politically neutral method, in Scalia's hands it usually leads to conservative results—at least on social issues like abortion, capital punishment, and gay rights.
Although proponents of originalism claim that it is a politically neutral method, in Scalia's hands it usually leads to conservative results — at least on social issues like abortion, capital punishment, and gay rights.
Put most forcefully, public reason is a sham: it purports to be an impartial or neutral method of moral or political justification, but it is, in fact, a form of sectarian secularism or modern liberalism masquerading as something more inclusive.
A recently described β-hydroxyketone oxidation using iodoxybenzoic acid (IBX) as the oxidant was employed as a mild, neutral method.
Fischhoff has suggested that preferences are not complete but are developed and clarified by trial and error i.e. that the process of elicitation is an integral part of a process of preference development, rather than a neutral method by which an already complete preference is measured [ 10].
He proffered a confusing proposal to maintain racial "diversity" through "race-neutral" methods.
The president said that he favored the goal of diversity but that universities should rely on race-neutral methods to increase minority enrollment.
Eric Schnapper, a law professor at the University of Washington, called the administration's insistence on race-neutral methods "a dagger in the heart of what the service academies are doing".
The framework is a major improvement over existing black-box, physics-neutral methods for model-form uncertainty quantification, where prior knowledge and details of the models are not exploited.
In one brief for Fisher, two members of the US Commission on Civil Rights, Gail Heriot and Peter Kirsanow, argued that "despite the good intentions" of affirmative action, the policies have failed because "the nation now has fewer African-American physicians, scientists, and engineers than it would have had using race-neutral methods".
