The New American cited Peter Sprigg of the Familly Research Council telling the Christian Post that early-childhood sex education "is part of the legacy of Alfred Kinsey, and the belief that 'children are sexual from birth.' This is a false and pernicious idea that introduces words, thoughts, and concepts to children long before it is developmentally appropriate for them.
The failure to draw the distinction between appearances and things in themselves is the hallmark of all those pernicious systems of thought that stand under the title of "transcendental realism".
In general, though, he found the "hundred days" idea pernicious.
Social progress — and personal fulfillment — begins with casting out New Thought and its pernicious legacy.
"It's the nature of the cuts that is most pernicious — across-the-board, without thought, cutting everything and anything including programs everyone thinks are good and effective," said Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody's Analytics.
From a very early point of his intellectual development, Dewey, like the British Idealist T. H. Green (on whom he wrote several essays) and the New Liberal L. T. Hobhouse, accepted that traditional liberalism in part rested on a false conception of the individual, which was ethically pernicious in its effect on liberal thought.
Modern France-bashing, like the bow ties favored by some young conservatives, is a nod to the conservative blue-bloods of earlier generations, as well as a reaction to the culture wars and the pernicious (if not perfidious) influence that modern French thought has had on American academics.
Now the disease is thought to be more pernicious.
Indeed, a mainstream strategy in cognitive behavioral therapy involves purposefully articulating thoughts to oneself in order to diminish pernicious habits of mind.
It's a pernicious relationship".
