Sentences with phrase «public ignorance about»

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.

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

Not exact matches

The truth is that both this cynicism and the naive faith it shatters are based on ignorance about public matters that a healthy republic can hardly afford.

What resources must we marshal for overcoming ignorance and indifference about public worship?

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.

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.

This article exposes the lies and ignorance rampant among the public about the Catholic church.

NYSUT slammed the governor's questions and the letter's overall tone as showing «ignorance about what parents want and the real issues facing public education.»

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.

Does ignorance about these factual matters bear on public attitudes toward school spending?

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.

Both the deceitful and the ignorant, though, prey on the ignorance of the public — as long as people don't know the truth about these exotic - sounding dogs, they'll continue to buy them and support this unethical and unnecessary practice.

If someone holds extreme or bizarre or clearly baseless opinions, or receives funding directly or indirectly from corporations with billions of dollars in profit riding on public confusion about, or ignorance of, the scientific facts, or «chooses to spend his time» with propagandists and ideologues known to be dishonest, those are all entirely legitimate — and indeed compelling — reasons to be, shall we say, «skeptical» of his scientific claims.

I was at a dinner a couple weeks back at which several journalists spoke on just this issue, and Shankar Vedantam and Chris Mooney made a good case for what I have also suggested (including in my reply to you on April 6); What's really irrational is for smart people, in support of the myth of perfect rationality and frustrated by the public's «ignorance» about risk, to ignore the mountains of evidence from neuroscience and social sciences about how human perception and decision - making actually works, about risk or anything else.

The USA Government and others care deeply about this «answer» that is best characterized as agreed upon «group ignorance» for public consumption.

The public's alleged concern about an invasion of privacy by Viacom — if indeed that concern is real — is due to the public's ignorance of how the legal system works.