"Whenever you have a suspicious death, that is treated as a homicide".
Yet the only one of these displays of ignorance that is treated as morally culpable is creationism.
A friend has hemochromatosis, a common genetic disorder that is treated by regular drawing of blood.
"You're talking about a community that is treated with great disrespect and disregard," she said.
Madison, who likes to draw, has asthma that is treated with a nebulizer.
A group of old women discuss a neighbor's son, who has started wearing spectacles, an occurrence that is treated superstitiously, as an omen of disaster.
It's also the only mental illness that is treated with a strange sort of jocularity by too many people in this country.
An alternative, he said, is to use southern yellow pine, a harder, stronger wood than redwood, that is treated with a preservative like copper azole.
And it pays Rob Lowe to raise awareness about neutropia, a side effect of chemotherapy that is treated by its drug, Neulasta.
Still, the sociological fact -- and one fraught with meaning -- is that it is a demographic category that is treated as an expression of race.
He also helped to write an internal playbook, what McDonald's now calls its "Plan to Win," that barely fits on a single sheet of paper — a text that is treated as sacred inside the company.
