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Epidemiologists were motivated to perform actions that both pleased their supervisors and avoided the punishment of monetary loss or demotion.
There are three serious problems with his argument--first, an analysis that gives urban liberalism an unconvincing degree of importance in accounting for this decline; second, a methodology that picks out three cities that are not really representative; and third, an oddly unbalanced account of urban history that places ideologically motivated mayors, liberal intellectuals, and radical black activists center stage.
The second paragraph of the WP piece examines a regionally motivated disagreement over dairy subsidies that very nearly incited a last-minute, all-night filibuster.
(Knee-jerk liberals are at least motivated by a desire for social justice, while knee-jerk neo-conservatives operate strictly out of fear--a fear of change; a fear of human instinct; a fear, it often seems to me, of their own latent homosexuality.)
The application of Welch statistics is motivated by the work of Thomas, et al.