Sentences with phrase «existing public attitudes»

Rather, we sought to learn about the character of existing public attitudes and to see what underlying concerns might shape the encounter of the American public with emerging biotechnologies in the years to come.

Wouldn't the pressure be on to reflect back existing public attitudes rather than to challenge them where they need challenging?

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Public frustration with existing criminal - justice procedures has encouraged a what - else - can - we - do attitude.

But «the public attitude towards genomics is not as negative as is sometimes thought,» says Van der Starre, although «of course large differences exist between different fields of genomics: Agricultural use is much more controversial than medical use.»

«The study shows that even though mental health professionals have by and large more favorable views about mental health patients than the public, stigmatizing attitudes still exist,» Stuber said.

In the absence of that premise, the goal of activists and interested parties to the bioethics debates should be to learn how best to educate the public, rather than to wield essentially meaningless statistics about existing attitudes.

With the release this morning of the Obama administration's proposed regulations curbing emissions of heat - trapping gases from existing power plants, the battle to shape public attitudes is already in high gear.