Another unscientific habit is the tendency to think critically about markets but uncritically about governments.
You accept uncritically the view of one professor who has dismissed the 1990 census undercount as inconsequential.
That Encode announcement last September contested by many scientists but embraced mostly uncritically by science journalists challenged the established view.
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The Treasury Department has published, edited, and updated articles about Shariah-compliant finance, which essentially promote Islamic law uncritically.
What is it that leads not only bloggers but respectable TV networks to write so uncritically about stuff like this?
Do you shake your head at the depths to which professional journalism has sunk when trash statistics uncritically lead the evening news?
The main national media, including state-controlled television, accept the official version uncritically.
Today we have the mainstream media who also uncritically accept the prevailing views, choosing their opinions by popularity, dull-mindedness, or opportunism rather than by reason.
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Journalists like CNN's Anderson Cooper repeated uncritically - and unprofessionally - assurances that there was no factual basis for linking Ms. Abedin to the Muslim Brotherhood.
Arguments about the risk premium, earnings prospects and other new factors (demographic shifts, the spreading share-owning culture, and others besides) were accepted far too uncritically in the late 1990s.
To prove that I didn't embrace "Jane Eyre" uncritically, I'll note that pulses were taken in the 19th century by checking the wrist, not the carotid artery as shown here, and I'll register an objection to the use of surround sound to create squeaking timbers at the back of the theater.
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David Kennedy, a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian who has taught at Stanford for more than forty years, credits the university with helping needy students and spawning talent in engineering and business, but he worries that many students uncritically incorporate the excesses of Silicon Valley, and that there are not nearly enough students devoted to the liberal arts and to the idea of pure learning.
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