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Line 3: − *[[Cambodia]] and [[Chile]]: In the 1970s, the ''New York Times'' published hundreds of articles about the 3,000 "disappearances" of [[Augusto Pinochet]]'s political opponents after the [[1973 Chile coup]]. They only published two articles about the 2,000,000 people murdered by the [[Pol Pot]] regime in Cambodia.{{fact}}
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The history of politics is full of examples of this sort of hypocrisy.
The history of politics is full of examples of this sort of hypocrisy.
*[[Global warming]]: Supporters of the [[Kyoto Protocol]] (an emissions reduction treaty) say that "[[correlation is not causation]]" when scientists point out the dozens of natural [[climate cycles]] linking changes in sunspots to changes in Earth's air temperature. But their argument for a [[runaway greenhouse effect]] is based on a single period from 1850 to present in which carbon dioxide levels and air temperatures have risen together.
*[[Global warming]]: Supporters of the [[Kyoto Protocol]] (an emissions reduction treaty) say that "[[correlation is not causation]]" when scientists point out the dozens of natural [[climate cycles]] linking changes in sunspots to changes in Earth's air temperature. But their argument for a [[runaway greenhouse effect]] is based on a single period from 1850 to present in which carbon dioxide levels and air temperatures have risen together.
[[category:political terms]]
[[category:political terms]]