Sentences with phrase «ideological think tanks»

It is called close minded thinking, and it is very different, and it usually finds ways to substantiate itself — to convince itself it is using reason and perpetuate the pattern and persistence in a false belief or idea; only further enabled when so many others want to do the same, the issue produces a lot of passion, and there is massive information (often put out by ideological think tanks who are fighting possible ways of redress by instead sowing doubt over the issue itself.)

In the same way that the verdicts of the courts should trump the protestations of organized crime, so the peer - reviewed literature must always trump internet cacophony or the opinions of ideological think tanks.

The use of ideological think tanks to promote the views of climate change deniers through their media outreach, speakers bureaus, publications, and conferences,

(See, for example, Ethical Issues Entailed By Economic Arguments Against Climate Change Policies, The original organizations that sought to undermine public support on climate policies by exaggerating scientific uncertainty have expanded to include ideological think tanks, front groups, Astroturf groups (i.e., groups organized by industry that pretend to be a legitimate grassroots organization), and PR firm led campaigns.

Like the ideological think tanks and Astroturf groups discussed later in this report, these front groups are not interested in educating the public about the large body of science that supports concern that greenhouse gases are threatening people around the world and the ecological systems on which they depend.

The oil and gas industry, industry - funded academics and ideological think tanks have promoted shale gas development — through the controversial process of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking — as a sure - fire job creator during difficult economic times.

And there isn't a lot of science being done on their side so they rely on ideological think tanks and journalists to promote and spread various messages about climate science.

But this ideological think tank is a disturbing example of all that is wrong with the current education reform movement that has allowed people without experience or expertise as educators to perpetuate an education reform agenda through the weight of money, political influence, and media compliance.

Not exact matches

And, again, this is the core example of the evolution of environmental bullshit: a long history of industry creation of lies; conservative funding of think - tanks, front groups and the echo chamber; the development of an ideological imperative of denialism; and then the necessity of completely groundless bullshit to shore up the lies.

Marc Lee, economist at the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, a progressive Vancouver think tank, says that government action on the reforms suggested by labour will be hampered by ideological objections to running deficits in bad times.

Clearly, think tanks offer an abundance of specialist knowledge from a range of ideological perspectives, but around half so far in the campaign have come from the Institute of Fiscal Studies (IFS).

From centrist Democrats who think that choice should only be limited to the expansion of public charter schools (and their senseless opposition to school vouchers, which, provide money to parochial and private schools, which, like charters, are privately - operated), to the libertarian Cato Institute's pursuit of ideological purity through its bashing of charters and vouchers in favor of the voucher - like tax credit plans (which explains the irrelevance of the think tank's education team on education matters outside of higher ed), reformers sometimes seem more - focused on their own preferred version of choice instead of on the more - important goal of expanding opportunities for families to provide our children with high - quality teaching and comprehensive college - preparatory curricula.

According to a detailed analysis by the blogger Deep Climate, McIntyre and McKitrick's criticism of the Hockey Stick graph was aggressively promoted and disseminated by an echo chamber of think tanks and blogs, all of which had financial or ideological associations with fossil fuel industry funders.

Besides the usual suspects Fox News Channel and Wall Street Journal, leading news organizations without an obvious ideological ax to grind — including the New York Times, USA Today and the Washington Post — routinely fail to identify these think tanks as proxies for fossil fuel interests and all too often fail to rebut their specious claims.

The ideological dimension was also stressed by conservative think tanks (the Cato Institute, Competitive Enterprise Institute, Heritage Foundation, Hoover Institution, etc.) which increasingly sponsored pamphlets, press releases, public lectures and so forth, arguing that global warming was not really a problem at all.

I then mapped out the discursive strategies used by these news sources and the ideological basis of the narratives propagated through discourse coalitions that permeate the Field of Power which encompasses the political, economic, academic, media and think tanks social fields.

Now, it's not like Fox is some lone bad actor nefariously seeking to push an anti-climate change agenda — there are numerous interests that benefit from climate confusion, the richest and most powerful of whom also support climate - denying conservative political candidates and sponsor the think tanks that Fox draws much of its ideological substance from.

Others with an ideological right - wing libertarian philosophy and funded by right - wing think tanks, distort the science to influence public opinion with the real goal of preventing governments from acting against global warming.