equivalence
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From MarketWatch • Feb. 26, 2026
"More problematically, matching adversaries' tone risks creating equivalence in audiences' minds between democratic institutions and disinformation actors."
From Barron's • Jan. 23, 2026
This much is grounds for legitimate moral equivalence.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 27, 2025
Science and quackery cannot be treated as having scientific and moral equivalence.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 15, 2024
The problem with the relativists is that they explain bad science and good science, phrenology and nuclear physics, in exactly the same way—advocates of ‘the strong programme’ explicitly insist on this equivalence.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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