Sentences with phrase «of public ignorance»

That's why many are trying to educate the general public, else emails between scientists discussing proxy reconstructions get badly spun by political hacks trying to take advantage of public ignorance.

Young, N. & Coutinho, A. Government, anti-reflexivity, and the construction of public ignorance about climate change: Australia and Canada compared.

So Gingrich pitched in and added to the sum total of public ignorance while also injecting his own personal brand of venomous hysteria (Bernanke was also the most «dangerous and power - centered» Federal Reserve Chairman in history) into the conversation.

Not exact matches

These highly placed, public figures do all sorts of praising of the non-existent PC brand until the firecracker bursts in their faces and they then plead ignorance or naivete.

But there is an ignorance and / or incapacity of being able to think beyond stage one when evaluating public policy.

I would rather I save my sanity from reading such stupid posts... please feel free to keep your inner ignorance to yourself then next time you feel like ranting... Mr Reality Whatever... are you a product of the public school system?

Ignorance is indeed our enemy, and we face the task of informing a public hindered by media that typically favour anything perceived as «respecting autonomy».

On Tuesday, January 17th, former Speaker of the House, Newt Gingrich said that the only way he would ever support a Muslim for the presidency of the United States is if that person would «commit in public to give up sharia» thereby continuing his trend to exhibit his ignorance on the subject of Islamic law (sharia) as well as his ignorance of the United States Constitution.

Intellectuals as such have no particular responsibility to take time away from what they know best to immerse themselves in the intricacies of political life and thought, but absent such immersion they would do well not to give public utterance to their ignorance.

Elmer John Thiessen, who teaches philosophy at a public university in Canada, deals with each of the accusations and shows how they all rest upon either an ignorance of the facts or a misunderstanding of the issues, and often upon both.

But Judge Posner incisively points out that «public support for the [partial - birth abortion bans] was [in part] based... on sheer ignorance of the medical realities of late - term abortion.

As Anthony Trollope observed over a century ago in Phineas Finn, the fault of a prominent politician was «not arrogance, so much as ignorance that there is, or should be, a difference between public and private life.»

This shows nothing more than ignorance of the bible and it's message for mankind maybe the President would do well to get alongside himself men of true faith Godly men who don't aspire for public office, who do nt name universities after themselves, who will tell him what Gods wants of him and not what the opinion polls want.

If we have something to say about the timeless enemies of the human condition — injustice, ignorance, bigotry, exploitation, hunger, war — we will fail if we try to sound like every other voice in the public realm instead of using our language and tradition.

Never has their been a TV NETWORK that could go deeper than Jerry Springer to get its point of ignorance out to the public!

I love America, but I worry about my nation as more and more of it's citizens allow ignorance and bigotry to not only control there lives, but attempt to turn it into public policy.

The coming battle is really several different battles: a struggle within the Church to combat ignorance, misunderstanding and dissent; a political fight to maintain the freedom of religion for Catholics; and a public policy battle to form the law of the land.

The company is free to not have their public image be one of supporting ignorance, hypocrisy, and discrimination.

When the Visitations disclosed that the chief trouble of the evangelical churches was the ignorance of the common people, steps were taken to use the public services also for purposes of instruction.

That's started evolving after I came out, then the ignorance involved with the major sort of initial public transitioning by a celebrity with Caitlin Jenner, and eventually sort of ended with this election / girls claiming milo yiannopoulos and tammy lahren were heroes.

No skin off our backs if others continue to enjoy committing public suicide on the hills of ignorance.

Unless long - term public good wins over short - term private gain and ignorance, vast ranges, already greatly depleted, will at no distant date be as barren as the sheep - created deserts of Spain.

«Arrest Nana Addo and prosecute him if it's not just propaganda you are doing with the drill ship saga,» John Boadu said, insisting that «Asiedu Nketiah» s misguided and erroneous reference to Nana Akufo - Addo's alleged incompetence is borne out of the usual ignorance and or deliberate attempts to mislead the public,» he said.

«My mission in public life which has always cantered on transforming the material conditions of our people has always revolved around these three imperatives — breaking the yoke of ignorance that keeps our people down; liberating them from ill - health and other limitations that restrain them from achieving their potentials; and breaking the stranglehold of poverty which keeps people from living full creative lives.

That much has been demonstrated by research showing that while the public has little knowledge of the British party funding system, its ignorance is no barrier to hostility towards the system.

As you probably know, he came up with the idea of Newspeak in this novel Nineteen Eighty - Four with the cult slogans «War is peace», «Freedom is slavery» and «Ignorance is strength» which were used in this fictional world to manipulate public opinion.

The ignorance of the public of what your state employees do is enormous..

Fortunately for Chopra, although ignorance of the law is famously no excuse in court, ignorance of the laws of nature is, and would almost certainly trump his public confession.

Tuberculosis remains a stubborn foe despite the efforts of the public and private sector's efforts to deploy new antibiotics and diagnostic tools against a disease that thrives on poverty and ignorance

«WE DO N'T benefit from ignorance,» Barack Obama said last week after ending a de facto freeze on US government research into the public - health impact of guns.

Ministers, fresh from bullying schools into concocting bogus league tables of their achievements in the name of the public's right to know, appear to have concluded that for pollution, ignorance is the safest policy.

Those pollsters who do seek a more thorough understanding of public attitudes find a marked lack of knowledge of the basic facts and even an acknowledgment of that ignorance — resulting in uncertain and highly malleable opinions.

In other arenas of policy and politics, even when people don't know much about a prominent public subject they tend not to perceive or report their own ignorance.

It's an industry which has made a killing on the ignorance of the general public.

Motivated by the public's «astounding ignorance» of gay lifestyles, Sherwood claimed: «One of the problems Hollywood has had dealing with this subject is that it's usually approached so gingerly.»

Instead, here is a man rightly enraged by the ignorance and bigotry of those who have no interest in learning what kind of player — let alone man — he is but knows that any public display of that anger and frustration would ruin his career and the future careers of any African American who could have the opportunity to play in the majors.

The habits of district - union collusion are due in large part to the public's ignorance of what collective bargaining agreements say and to a strong desire for tranquility and smooth school operations.

I'm concerned that all of this is a way to avoid a real conversation about the purposes of public education and then to acknowledge our ignorance about «ensuring» success.

Part of the explanation for this is the widespread ignorance on the part of the general public about just how much already is spent on public schools.

School / districts can only do so much to fight the willful ignorance of a public who think they must be entertained but will not make an effort on their own, refuse to read and whose attention span is limited to 7 - 15 minutes.

She has never run, taught in, attended or sent a child to an American public school, and her confirmation hearings laid bare her ignorance of education policy and scorn for public education itself.

It is different when a private actor such as Gates uses his money to leverage public money — some $ 600 billion of it for his own relatively small investment of few tens of millions every year — to steer the public money to implement mediocre curricula and ill thought - out programs born of his feverish imagination and ignorance.

Greed, stupidity, ignorance, and even more greed are behind the historic effort to denigrate teachers, turn our schools into little more than Common Core Testing factories, and destroy the concept of a true and comprehensive public education system.

Eskelsen García just addressed the 96th NEA Representative Assembly meeting in Boston, accusing President Donald Trump of residing «at the dangerous intersection of arrogance and ignorance» and labeled DeVos as «the queen of for - profit privatization of public education.»

Jesus just look at Brexit, the level of ignorance by the UK public on what that will actually mean for them and the rest of the world is staggering.

The use of the word «ignorance» and the need for libraries to «demonstrate their relevance to both the public and the deciding policy makers» perhaps gives the lie to why they struggle.

But while these technical variables may seem trivial, lending institutions and retailers have been taking advantage of the public's general ignorance of these distinctions to rake in hundreds of billions of dollars over the years.

Quite frankly if the credit bureaus have 79 % errors, according to the US Public Interest Research Group, and that only 11 % of those people with errors dispute those facts and only 5 % of those ever challenge the results of the investigation the credit bureaus are banking, LITERALLY banking on the average consumers ignorance trying to get through the credit repair maze.

In political science, the roles of irrationality and public ignorance are well understood.

He has argued that failed banks should not be bailed out, Lehman's collapse was not a disaster, AIG should be declared bankrupt, that naked short selling is not a problem, that backdating isn't so bad, insider trading should be legal, many corporate CEOs are underpaid, global solutions are worse than local solutions, Warren Buffett is overrated, Michael Milken is a great American, the collapse of the hedge fund was not a scandal, hedge funds are over-regulated, education is overrated by the educated, bonuses at successful Wall Street's firms are deserved and possibly undersized, management buyouts are boons to the economy, Enron's management was victimized by an over-zealous prosecution, Sarbanes - Oxley should be repealed, corporate compliance culture is a disaster, shareholder democracy is overrated, hostile takeovers ought to be revived, the market is permanently moving away from public ownership of equity in corporations, private partnerships are on the rise, public ignorance is encouraged and manipulated by governments and corporations, experts overrate expertise, regulatory agencies are controlled by the businesses they supposedly regulate and Wall Street is much more fun than people give it credit for.