A lot has happened since 2008, but few things have been as bizarre as the refusal to meaningfully correct the system that destroyed millions of jobs, homes, and dreams and enabled the spread of authoritarianism around the world.
The American Academy of Pediatrics issued a guideline "Responding to parental refusals of immunization of children" which advises to listen respectfully to all objections, provide honest information, and attempt to correct any misperceptions [ 21].
Innocent people do end up in prison, on death row and possibly even executed because of poor performance from prosecutors as well as defense counsel, and because of a refusal to concede and correct errors like false confessions and faulty eyewitness identification procedures.
For his continued refusal to use the correct historical term -- for his continued dancing around the word "genocide" -- President Barack Obama is our Most Disappointing Democrat Of The Week this week.
Trump's blunt speech and billionaire status has gained him many supporters who admire both his refusal to be "politically correct" and his insistence that, as a rich man, he is beholden to no one.
I don't remember being open to such input when as a 22-year-old hopeful I was with the last England (pedantically, 'MCC') team to visit South Africa before the contentious but wholly correct refusal to 'play with apartheid'.
A politically correct refusal to offend by stating that this makes a difference meant, once again, that efforts elsewhere were aimed at preventing a heterosexual epidemic that was never going to happen.That is not, of course, quite how the WHO sees things.
