Sentences with phrase «exaggerated public fears»

The home secretary said he hoped to find a middle way between heightening awareness of the terrorist risk and causing exaggerated public fears about the nature of the threat.

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Though fears about the impacts may be exaggerated, the pro-technology forces will not be able to erase fears from the public because genomics is becoming integrated into the collective narrative we share about technology and its place in our lives.

In all cases, those with a fiduciary charge to protect their investors ultimately resorted to exaggerated claims about costs, relying on public fear to help slow the rate of policy response.

«I have found myself increasingly chastised by climate change campaigners when my public statements and lectures on climate change have not satisfied their thirst for environmental drama and exaggerated rhetoric... Why is it not just campaigners, but politicians and scientists too, who are openly confusing the language of fear, terror and disaster with the observable physical reality of climate change, actively ignoring the careful hedging which surrounds science's predictions?»

Mr Gore has been accused of exaggerating climate - change risks for his own political gain and conservative critics have claimed scientific research is skewed to play on the fears of the public.

He has said that public fears around fracking are exaggerated and that responding to public pressure is «pandering.»