Bait and switch4/17/2023 Beware of any claims that subtly violate these rules because they are probably setting you up for a bait and switch. Generic intellectual virtues incorporate this vigilance – they include the need to unambiguously define terms, to make claims as specific and operational as possible, and the use of valid logic. Science, however, requires transparent honesty to function properly, and therefore scientific practitioners must vigilantly guard against the cognitive bait and switch. It even permeates scientific, political, and other intellectual endeavors – anytime a more palatable idea or claim is put forward to represent the less acceptable truth. It’s a basic and very successful form of deception, and so even though there are laws against such practices it is impossible to eliminate in all its various and more subtle forms. Of course when we got to the dealership they were all out of Colts with the configuration advertised, but they had plenty of others that had different options that cost several thousand dollars more (that’s the switch). We needed a bargain and so we were attracted to the ads that promised a new Colt for only $9,000 (that’s the bait). My wife and I ran across it when we were shopping for our first car. Karen A.Savvy consumers are familiar with the classic scam of the “bait and switch” – in practice if not the term itself. A stunning assessment of human rights behavior during the Global War on Terrorism." An 'arch' unilateralist executive, the breakdown in military command, and competitive civil society have led to intense hatred of the U.S. human rights behavior is more devastating in this updated text. Anne-Marie Slaughter, Dean, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University Bait and Switch is an important book that should be read by anyone interested in the growing gulf between how the United States sees itself and how other nations and peoples see it." human rights policy, this is a serious indictment. "does" human rights.’ Coming from a scholar who expected to come to a much more positive conclusion regarding U.S. "Mertus argues that ‘something is seriously awry with the way the U.S. Weiss, Presidential Professor of Political Science and Director of the Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies, The CUNY Graduate Center foreign policy are subjected to scrutiny in both the media and classroom, nothing could be more timely than this critical examination of not only the executive branch and the military but NGOs as well." human rights policy need look no further than this insightful and readable volume by Julie Mertus. "Scholars and practitioners seeking to understand the stark differences between the pious rhetoric and prosaic reality of U.S. Jack Donnelly, author, Universal Human Rights in Theory and Practice, and Andrew Mellon Professor, Graduate School of International Studies, University of Denver "Mertus provides a stark indictment of the slippage between American rhetoric and American action on international human rights, showing how partisan selectivity and double standards pervaded American policy even before September 11. More generally, the book examines the ways in which international norms can get lost in the translation into domestic practice, challenging some comfortable orthodoxy about the depth and breadth of the spread of an international human rights culture."
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