Community education through mass media and community-based health workers can improve community awareness of the warning symptoms and signs of eclampsia, such as headache, visual disturbances, and epigastric pain and can weaken beliefs that PE/E signs are caused by witchcraft or bad spirit.
All the forces in our culture that weaken our belief in talent deny this fundamental fact, but it always returns to haunt us.
The philosophy of Immanuel Kant (1724 1804), as well as the utilitarianism of Jeremy Bentham (1748 1832), served to weaken the belief that "nature" could be the source of moral or legal norms.
But this has not weakened religious belief.
The mindset that action research is a project rather than a process can therefore weaken teachers' belief on action research.
The mindset that action research is another add-on to teachers' workload rather than an integral part of the professional practice and identity of a teacher can likewise weaken teachers' belief on action research.
Iran's Supreme Leader has said that teaching those disciplines has [End Page 372] increased skepticism among students and weakened their belief in Islam.54 To train a new cadre of individuals loyal to the regime, the PBO must remove any skepticism among students about Islamic ideology.
The test result could weaken parents' belief that they could take action to prevent/reduce the risk of the behaviour developing in their child and pharmaceutical solutions, as posited by Caspi et al. might not be available (Caspi et al., 2002, xvii).
Unfounded authority was established by citation bias against papers that refuted or weakened the belief; amplification, the marked expansion of the belief system by papers presenting no data addressing it; and forms of invention such as the conversion of hypothesis into fact through citation alone.
The difficulty, as Barry (1995) and Raz (1990) have pointed out, is to explain why doubts visible from the outside would not infect the internal point of view, thus weakening these beliefs' internal authority as well.
The major techniques for weakening such beliefs include challenging the evidence for them, generating alternative explanations, identifying irrational or inconsistent elements and constructing reality testing experiments [ 4, 5].
