Sentences with phrase «obfuscate issues»

Are there ever times when too much «attunement» and «empathy» can constrict a therapist's clinical repertoire and obfuscate the issues with which clients should deal?

For the deniers, what the whole discussion of climate sensitivity really is, is a way to obfuscate issues by directing our attention to small time scales.

For example, are there ways in which such conventional contrasts as «theory / practice» or «academic / professional» or «objective / subjective» serve as much to obfuscate issues as to clarify them?

The scapegoaters additionally obfuscate the issue by promoting an incorrect interpretation of the H - 1B statute.

Soglin called the focus on the Beaver Dam facility a «lame excuse» that «obfuscates the issue.»

You obfuscate the issue and my post to turn things around because you have no legitimate argument and never will.

Dishonest libtards like to obfuscate the issue by intentionally using imprecise terminology.

It was the timing of that decision that further obfuscated the issue because when World Cup was closing in and his name was nearly cemented in the 23 man squad, he chose to move away from limelight and in doing so, had probably done an irreparable damage to his World Cup dreams.

Cuomo, like you, is obfuscating the issue at hand.

Furthermore, real science and real scientists are transparent and answer the question when asked, they don't obfuscate the issue.

s not obfuscate the issue with blatant misinformation.

They take every opportunity to obfuscate the issue with comments like the scientists are wrong, it's all a hoax, when they've heard from a friend of a friend of a friend whose brother flunked statistics, never took science, but works for an oil company and has his own blog, that it is so.

Of course the Watermelons adopted Climate Change to obfuscate the issue for the ignorant.

You can't, and because you can't, like Rob Ellison, in good dedicated Warmist fashion, you attempt to change the subject, redefine word meanings, avoid simple answers to simple questions, and generally obfuscate the issue.

It obfuscates the issue, you continue making profits without having outlays for refitting an entire industry and you have those profits to invest in other purely profit making enterprises.

The AGW alarmists have altered the data sets, hidden declines (Midievil Warming Period) and obfuscated the issue (Climate Gate) in order to promote an agenda that gives them control.

Tom P's suggestion to treat Schweingruber as a separate site is perfectly reasonable, and McIntyre is obfuscating the issue.

That you consistently use the red herring of false accusations of «conspiracy» to try and obfuscate the issue 1 - is repetitive 2 - displays a lack of serious thinking on your part at best.

Yes, scientists dislike it when work that they think deliberately obfuscates the issues gets published.

Not exact matches

Asian Americans and the issue of affirmative action have long been used to drive a wedge between communities of color and obfuscate the real purpose of the program, which brings opportunity to students from disadvantaged backgrounds.

And then I recognized that my academic language of distancing analysis and explanation also served to obfuscate the clear moral dimensions of life and the need to choose between right and wrong, and that on some issues analysis or explanation is itself a form of collusion.

PETA tends to obfuscate the pet issue because «animal liberation» is understood to be a multi-generational project and targeting pet ownership would compromise the organization's ability to get donations from loving dog and cat owners who think they believe in animal rights.

And this Potato Council bigwig's obfuscating of the issue, based on his opinion that «baked» fries somehow do not count as fries, is pathetic.

He was a statistician by trade and you know how you can use statistics to divert and obfuscate and cloud the issue.

The victory registered by the complainant parties (temporary, since China can still appeal it) does not obfuscate the deeper issue, which is that what is needed in the medium and long term is a strategy to curb or eliminate this precarious dependency.

Salmond's response to these weighty issues has been to slander and obfuscate.

Distinguished Melaye with his high sense of drama has obfuscated the real issue by his actions, depending on who you believe, jumping out of a police to save his life from tear gas attack or attempting to escape from lawful police custody.

Distinguished Melaye with his high sense of drama has obfuscated the real issue by...

The confounding of language at its most basic level reduces us to a state of civic catatonia: we can't think about these issues, let alone discuss them or act against them, when they've been so obfuscated, when words have been so twisted.»

«The crazy - quilt thing completely obfuscates the transparency that No Child Left Behind brought to bear,» said Margaret Spellings, who was education secretary under George W. Bush and now advises the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and others on education issues.

It's taken years for the boys in Affalterbach to tweak the formula for their 12 - cylinder top dog, obfuscated by the simple (and decidedly First World) issue of how to wrangle ungodly amounts of torque — in this case, a stunning 738 lb - ft (or 1,000 newton - meters) of rotation from the handbuilt, 6.0 - liter twin - turbo V - 12.

I can arm - wave about an unsettled issue too, and then claim that I should get credit for noticing it when a peer - reviewed paper comes out a couple years later dealing with it, but I'd only do so if my intent was to confuse and obfuscate.

Andrew Revkin Boy, Michael, if my writing and blogging has allowed even one person (you) to step out of the fog of competing messages and obfuscated science in the climate arena, I feel it's been worth the hassles (and all that «scorching» you refer to, which has come from folks on all sides of this issue at one point or another).

His declarations of concern have become comical in the face of everything the Howard Government has done to defer, delay, deny and obfuscate on the issue.

Refusing to face a fact will not make it go away and choosing to deal with side issues just obfuscates the situation.

«It is my experience which guides my firm support of the proposition that skeptics and those who have the courage to support them are actually helpful in getting the science right... They do not, as some improperly suggest, «obfuscate» the issue: They assist in clarifying it by challenging weaknesses in the «consensus» argument, and they compel necessary corrections,» he said.

This means that it must be accurate and convey the important information, but it can not contain all of the scientific detail, which would obfuscate to issue (disinformation).

[«The problem is that Internet trolls have put significant effort in obfuscating this simple issue.»]

The problem is that Internet trolls have put significant effort in obfuscating this simple issue.

Now, I concede that while this may well be the case, it does little to clarify or advance the issue under debate, and much to obfuscate it.

A key issue in PNS is to distinguish carefully between authentic extended peer networks (and their proper domain of action) and efforts to obfuscate and attack science, sponsored by hidden corporate and political interests.

John — if I heard correctly he was objecting to Judith saying there were «many» who shared Kevin Trenberth's assertion that the crucial issue in the world today was being muddied, blocked and obfuscated by «deniers».

Quinn Ross, the president of the Ontario Bar Association, says the comments of some opponents have obfuscated the real issue, which is that equality, diversity and inclusion are fundamental to the future of the profession.

(In its comment, Grindr says it encrypts and obfuscates location data, but has not specifically denied the existence of this issue.)

One issue I find particularly galling: Accessing your files and saved games is needlessly obfuscated.

While Brookfield may have stopped working on a potential transaction shortly before issuing its Friday press release, the release obfuscated Brookfield's historic interest in acquiring GGP.