Sentences with phrase «dangerous myth»

If you wan na talk about ocean acidification — it's one of the most dangerous myths that there is.

The manual also addresses dangerous myths: if a boy wears a tight belt while having sex, can this prevent pregnancy?

How can they not recognize how downright dangerous a myth like that is?

If you want to buy the book, you can buy it here: Making Sense of the Dollar: Exposing Dangerous Myths about Trade and Foreign Exchange

It has no place at all in a news organization, which is supposed to be uncovering * facts *, not propagating dangerous myths.

Joe Romm at Climate Progress made a great point yesterday in highlighting one of the most dangerous myths of climate change: that it is reversible.

Scientists like Pielke have a responsibility not to put dangerous myths into the hands of those whose interests are very different from that of the majority.

Jeffrey Pfeiffer, «Six Dangerous Myths about Pay,» Harvard Business Review (May - June 1998), 109 - 119.

This is a dangerous myth, propagated by secular groups, who genuinely believe that their way is the only true way and everything else is deviation.

For Patterson, another dangerous myth, the myth of the «hood,» amounts to «the belief that viable informal friendship patterns and communities exist, compensating for the breakdown or absence of more formal institutions.»

This is a dangerous myth.

This coincidence perpetuates the dangerous myth that cereal in a bottle does indeed help an infant sleep through the night.

«We want to dispel this dangerous myth,» they write.

From Fox News security «expert» Steve Emerson to Ukip leader Nigel Farage, the right has seized on a dangerous myth about Muslim no - go zones and used it to advance the culture wars

«Tim has propagated the dangerous myth,» he said, «that our society can respect and embrace people in same - sex relationships, while believing their activities and character to be in some way immoral.»

with Susan Edwards, dean of law at the University of Buckingham; Christina Hoff Sommers, writer and host of the weekly video series, The Factual Feminist; Kaitlynn Mendes, author of SlutWalk: feminism, activism and media; and chair Luke Gittos solicitor, Hughmans Solicitors, legal editor of Spiked and author of Why Rape Culture is a Dangerous Myth.

«Far more importantly, Tim has propagated the dangerous myth that our society can respect and embrace people in same sex relationships, while believing their activities and character to be in some way immoral,» he said.

David Laws said that Farron had undermined the party's general election efforts - and propagated a «dangerous myth».

Others are unconvinced, seeing in peak stuff a dangerous myth and a thinly veiled excuse to abandon efforts to limit our planetary impact.

There's a dangerous myth that people of color are not at risk of skin cancer.

on 5 Dangerous Myths About Fertility Nutrition.

# 3 Myth: Starving diet really work great --- A dangerous myth that can have fatal consequences.

Amid all these influences, the Randian «self» that's fetishized by modern conservatives is casually exposed as a dangerous myth.

This version of Frank resembles musicians like Daniel Johnston and Roky Erickson, whose genius seemed inseparable from their madness, but the film commendably pokes a hole in that dangerous myth.

As Rothstein puts it, we must resist the «dangerous myth» that «all children, regardless of academic background, can achieve to the same high standards if only schools demand it.»

For him, tracking is based on another «dangerous myth,» since the practice of taking «poor children... assigned to tracks and taught less challenging lessons» assumes that «disadvantaged children could not learn.»

As Stanford business school professor Jeffrey Pfeiffer notes in «Six Dangerous Myths About Pay,» performance incentives not only «absorb vast amounts of management time and resources,» they often «actually decrease performance in tasks that require creativity and innovation.»

This is a dangerous myth at all levels.

@JessicaSala We need to let people know that pit bull type dogs, not a breed, they are loving, smart, loyal;) There are too many myths, dangerous myths in my opinion, that lead to things like BSL.

Anyone who has seen an animal euthanized in a shelter for lack of a home knows the truth behind this dangerous myth.

This is a dangerous myth because the consequences include surrendering cats to shelters, abandoning and euthanizing them for fixable behavior problems.

Or as some fear, is it a dangerous myth?

For more on the film and the dangerous myths it spreads about nuclear energy, read the conversation between Mark Hertsgaard and Terry Tempest - Williams, Pandora's Terrifying Promise: Can Nuclear Power Save the Planet?

Yet, there's a dangerous myth that young associates have to wait before they find clients of their own.

The title of the article was Shining a Light on a Vehicle's Blind Spot, by Joanne Will, but strangely — having acknowledged the existence of at least 11 blind spots on a car — she then goes on to write as though there are only two, thus unwittingly perpetuating a common but dangerous myth.

But «love is all you need,» as the Beatles song goes, is a dangerous myth.

Mildred Gamez, a 15 - year - old from Arizona, and Melissa Carrera, an 18 - year - old from Maryland, spoke about the dangerous myths their friends and classmates believe due to a lack of comprehensive sex education.

Research indicates that «letting it all hang out» is a dangerous myth of anger management.