Sentences with phrase «obscure the facts on»

Naomi Oreskes is a science historian, professor at the University of California, San Diego, and co-author (with Erik Conway) of «Merchants of Doubt,» a book that examined how a handful of scientists obscure the facts on a range of issues, including tobacco use and climate change.

The Supran / Oreskes study alleged that ExxonMobil had obscured the facts on climate change by producing internal research that conflicted with the company's advertisements.

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And that more than makes up for the fact that they have gone from representing marquee names with vast budgets to mostly obscure brands operating on a shoestring.

The scholarly orgy of debunking has obscured the importance of the facts that such ideals were professed at all, and that debate about them helped to focus the attention of a large, diverse, professional community on the question of what kind of life a lawyer ought to try to live.

(The strong force is based on a yet larger set of gauge symmetries, but this fact was obscured by a quite different effect and also was not discovered for a long time.)

Remarkable and significant as is the emergence of self - conscious persons by natural processes from the original «hot big bang» from which the universe has expanded over the last 10 - 20 thousand million years, this must not be allowed to obscure another fact about humanity, namely its relatively recent arrival in the universe, even on a time - scale of the history of the Earth.

• Fact # 7: Mark Batterson is the author of the recent book, In a Pit with a Lion on a Snowy Day based on an obscure reference in 1 Chronicles 11:22 «Benaiah son of Jehoiada was the son of a brave man from Kabzeel, a man of many exploits.

Someone took footage from a low budget movie called «Desert Warrior», did a fast overdub to add the offensive comments, and put it out on the net to obscure the fact that these people in the lands attacked by the US are actually angry over invasion, conquest, looting, drone strikes against civilians, torture, and being shot at by the United States on behalf of Israel.

On the one hand, attention to the widespread presence of societal forces obscures the reality of autonomous individuality; on the other hand, a concern for the fact of idiosyncratic action beclouds awareness of the reality of social wholeOn the one hand, attention to the widespread presence of societal forces obscures the reality of autonomous individuality; on the other hand, a concern for the fact of idiosyncratic action beclouds awareness of the reality of social wholeon the other hand, a concern for the fact of idiosyncratic action beclouds awareness of the reality of social wholes.

The remaining differences, however, should not obscure the fact that agreement has been obtained on some of the most hotly debated issues in the doctrine on justification, especially concerning the role of faith and concerning the certitude of salvation as based on God's promise.

Reagan was a master communicator — his effectiveness on television rivaled FDR's mastery of radio — but his charm tended to obscure the fact that he was not teaching about reality.

Sometimes, to lay more emphasis on the uniqueness of this «sonship» of Jesus, his birth and infancy, which would seem in fact to have been ordinary and obscure (his home and family were so ordinary that his fellow - townsmen would not accept him as a preacher in their synagogue), were pictured as having been miraculous and attended by wonders and glory.

The last second drama for Loyola has obscured the fact that it was always a very good mid-major, one that now stands 31 - 5 on the season.

Focusing on Premier League with a weakness for obscure facts, pointless stats and tactical chat.

The intense media focus on Sandusky and Paterno actually obscures the fact that this is a very common problem in youth sports.

But obscured on labels is the fact that the so - called fruit snacks are mostly sugars (some from fruit concentrate and some from corn syrup), artificial additives, and potentially harmful artificial dyes...

But if facts are distorted or obscured (on either side of the debate) everybody loses.

In this context, I'm troubled by the misinformation on which Americans all - too - often base their political beliefs — from both the politicians who obscure facts as they compete for votes and the news outlets that aim to satisfy a partisan audience.

David Attenborough (for respectability, gravitas and social reports on the human species), Stephen Fry (for obscure and diffi cult to source facts), Armando Iannucci (for how not to run a government department - he's done the research) and John Prescott (to defl ect criticism from anybody else).

The paper points out that all cloning is reproductive and reflects on the immediate outcome of human cloning — a human embryo — while examining the terminology used by cloning advocates to obscure the facts.

But while centering a film on the bad guys may sound like a cool idea, it's massively hampered by the fact that the Suicide Squad team is mostly comprised of D - list characters (like Killer Frost and Captain Boomerang) so obscure that they're every bit as expendable as Waller claims them to be.

Local screenwriter John Orloff (A Mighty Heart) makes a persuasive case for the argument that the facts of Oxford's life fit the plays better than those of the obscure man from Stratford - on - Avon.

Chester E. Finn Jr.'s tiresome and laborious attempt to show that there are significant differences between President Clinton's education policies and those of former President George Bush («related story, 01/25/95) merely obscures the fact that Mr. Clinton's program basically follows through on the policies set by Mr. Bush and the governors at their famous education summit held in September 1989 at Charlottesville, Va..

We teach now in classrooms where obscure facts can be readily accessed by a few taps on an iPhone.

On the other hand, any study that looks for data in obscure factors like eye movements can be justly criticized for missing the main event, despite the fact that it qualifies for publication in any number of relatively credible journals.

However, I don't think we can allow our sentiments to obscure the fact that we can no longer afford to continue providing our children with schools that run on little more than blind faith and good intentions.

Lots of little details line up to niggle, stuff like the odd steering wheel (flat - bottomed, apparently comprised of offcuts from five or six other steering wheels), the fact that the wheel obscures the instruments for taller drivers, the uncomfortable seats, the engine's unsophisticated, torque - heavy delivery and the way your left knee bangs on the heater controls.

These schemes are dependent on the fact that people want hope and believe in quick, easy money, and it works as long as the con artists are able to get the «mark» (the person who deposits the check and sends them the money) to send the money before the check (always drawn on some obscure foreign bank) has a chance to clear.

In fact, sometimes the amount of colorful chaos exploding on the screen can detract from the experience simply by obscuring the racer and the race track.

It's a well known fact that American and European box art for games have differed quite significantly over the years, with American box art having a more masculine edge to them, with action being the focus of the art, whereas European art tends to reflect a more creative aspect, focusing on a more obscure and contemplative angle of the design.

If you want to bone up on some forgotten Mario factoids, read Unknown Mario - 30 obscure facts and random trivia about Nintendo's mascot.

There is also the fact that, unlike vaginas, penises are harder to hide and are not as visible as a male genitals, you can have shots of completly naked woman and not see anything at all even more if it's obscured by pubic hair, this also happened on videogames in the past like the LA Noire example, Red Dead Redemption & The Witcher 2 (where one of first ingame cutscenes is a crotch shot of naked woman) and it happens in movies all the time.

This was helpful in obscuring the fact that these shifts weren't terribly subtle, especially later on.

All of the petty Ackroyd - ing on the blogs obscures that fact, intentionally or not.

But, future generations are counting on us, and pieces like Mr. Dudley's only seek to delay action and obscure facts.

But focusing just on their problem obscures a key fact.

For a group apparently hooked on transparency, the latest organization to spring from the loins of the fossil fuel — funded climate science denial industry certainly manages to obscure one or two pertinent facts.

This will obscure the previous climate headlines of the warmest autum on record in the US and also the fact that 2016 will be the warmest year yet recorded on planet Earth since record keeping began.

In fact, focussing on justice tends to obscure the independent importance of humanity in law.

In fact, the person who posted the video didn't even bother to obscure what appear to be identification stickers placed on the back of pre-release devices so that Samsung can track them.