Only a kind of religious faith in the ability of the human mind to represent the fabric of society mathematically could have led to such confidence in these models.

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And several professional organizations have petitioned Medicare to change its mind including the American Society of Clinical Oncologist and the American Society of Hematologist.

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Though these are caricatures, everyone has some such picture of the family and society in mind when they talk about family decline and the loss of innocence.

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It is important that American society keeps this in mind given the costs of economically repairing the nation.

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"We don't mind them publishing the effects of what they have discovered to inform society, I think this is absolutely fine, " he said.

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"As they say, nature abhors a vacuum, and the mind abhors chance, " says Michael Shermer, executive director of the Skeptics Society and author of "The Believing Brain, " a book on how humans seem hardwired to find patterns in disparate facts and unconnected, often innocent coincidences.

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At best, their debate on ideology can help to uproot some damaging caricatures, such as the one planted accidentally in the public mind by Lady Thatcher when she was quoted out of context as saying that there was no such thing as society.

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But a read of them does give a glimpse into Keyes' mind, apparently describing how it felt to take a life and the disdain in which he held much of American society.

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