Sentences with phrase «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.

Bogart sees a valuable role for surveys in ascertaining the extent of public ignorance on matters of fact.

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.

You are another courageous worrier against public ignorance.

Scientists must account for general public ignorance; not prey on it as has been done with this AGW hypothesis based on the fraudulent misrepresentation of the effect from greenhouse gases.

No offense, but there is too much public ignorance about the issues and even about the differences between solicitors and barristers, and that ignorance is harming you.

Like federal privacy commissioner Jennifer Stoddart, he calls public ignorance about the vast, daily exchange of personal information the greatest threat to privacy in Canada today.

But I will suggest that public ignorance about the various electromagnetic waves we encounter in our daily lives is immense, which, with the help of the media, can lead to unfounded fears and then to irrational policy.

In 1985 public ignorance of AIDS ran rampant.

It has been tempting to attribute the problem to public ignorance, misunderstanding or irrationality.

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

I'd object that public ignorance that there is a scientific consensus on many aspects of global warming is a proper subject of agnotology, and that no theory of this ignorance can ignore the active efforts of those sort - of - knowledgeable deniers.