Not exact matches
That is a canard that is spread
by the religious in an
effort to
distort the argument.
Our freedom of speech has already been ridiculed and
distorted by several of these mainstream outlets (as expected), giving validation to our cause and
efforts.
Nothing in human
effort or will, nothing in our human loves,
distorted as they are
by sin, can be relied upon as indications of the love of God.
The ad
distorted figures compiled
by WHO and UNICEF in an
effort to demonstrate that national breastfeeding rates are at acceptable levels and have not been endangered
by formula advertising.
Yet if you scratch below the surface of these articles - and make the
effort to read the research being reported - it quickly becomes clear that the debate is being dramatically
distorted by a perfect storm of shaky or incomplete research, and sensationalist reporting.
In support of his case, Whitehouse offers up a supposedly sinister 2008 internal memo from the American Petroleum Institute and a quote — taken from a report
by Drexel University professor Robert Brulle — to the effect that there has been «a deliberate and organized
effort to misdirect the public discussion and
distort the public's understanding of climate.»
The real problem with politics in climate science if the continuing
efforts by the fossil fuel industry, led
by ExxonMobil, to
distort scientific facts in an
effort to deceive the public about the real extent of the problem.
Only the non-adjusted temperature record is now
distorted by an escalating
effort to lie, to commit fraud, to increase current surface temperatures and decrease past temperatures.
The quotations from Greenpeace, Tony Juniper and Reuters are similarly
distorted by the Cato Institute, a libertarian think tank that also employs Milloy and that opposes action to address global warming, as well as
by the Cybercast News Service (which used to call itself the «Conservative News Service» before changing its name, in an evident
effort to disguise its political agenda).
We've swapped a centrally organized government
effort to
distort climate science for a kind of grassroots, guerilla war against it, driven
by blogs and skeptic scientist amateurs who nourish a powerful sense of self - motivation, a generous helping of anger and outrage, and seem to smell blood in the water.
Science these days is heavily beset
by propaganda
efforts aimed at
distorting scientific results and analysis in the name of economic gain (rather short - term economic gain at that).