Sentences with phrase «public ignorance on»

Democrats, Meyer is saying, can win if they exaggerate and pander to public ignorance on issues like health care and global warming, but once elected and their «solutions» to the fake problems are put on the table, they immediately start to lose public support.

Not exact matches

I don't know what it is that compels these people to put their ignorance and gullibility on public display like that.

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 ConstitutioOn 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 Constitutioon the subject of Islamic law (sharia) as well as his ignorance of the United States Constitution.

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.

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.

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

«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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

«By camouflaging their true agenda and encouraging the public to confuse animals rights philosophy with the public's own belief in principles of animal welfare, they have organized a powerful, highly sophisticated, media - savvy international movement designed to cash in on the fear, concern and ignorance people have regarding animals and animal issues,» says Patti Strand, AKC Board Member and executive director of the National Animal Interest Alliance (NAIA), an animal welfare organization that supports responsible use of animals and works to protect our rights to own and breed dogs.

What do you hope to gain by public demonstrations of your ignorance on this site?

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.

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.

On the denialist side of this debate we have factual misrepresentation, resolute ignorance (or the feigning of it), fabricated controversies intended to distract the public, and a fixation on personalities and politicOn the denialist side of this debate we have factual misrepresentation, resolute ignorance (or the feigning of it), fabricated controversies intended to distract the public, and a fixation on personalities and politicon personalities and politics.

All we need to do is look at the polls of where the public stands, and at the polls that reveal the scientific ignorance underlying widespread public opinion, to see that the impact of the unsound science on the skeptics» side is significant.

This is merely your outcry to the public and looking for support, hoping that you can spread your ignorance to them, and instill unsupported fear, rather than focusing on the science and trying to falsify it.

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.

They worked hard instead to scare the public by preying on their ignorance.

TV reporters and anchors produce reports and documentaries that are based on their personal ignorance, where their ignorance is then transferred to the public at large.

In my future research, I plan to build on my PhD study to further investigate how economic interests use think tanks, the news media, social media and social movements to engage in the social production of scientific ignorance in order to manipulate policy debates in the areas of environment, energy and public health.

This a global conspiracy of smart issue based lobbyists making a fast regressive buck, based on the guesses of climate scientists, fraudulently linked to a regressive set of over subsidised solutions that actually make net grid sourced ACO2 emissions worse, exploiting the abject ignorance of the public and their politicians for a faster buck than doing the right thing.

... Media Charlatans... TV reporters and anchors produce reports and documentaries that are based on their personal ignorance, where their ignorance is then transferred to the public at large.

After all these years wouldn't one perhaps wonder why CREA (the industry mother ship) has not produced a boatload of buyer agency ads or actual training for the public, specifically, for the real estate law firms, and last but certainly not least, for the press who insists on declaring that only «sellers» pay the commission, creating misrepresentation by their comments and articles, either intentionally or out of genuine ignorance.

In every single market there are agents losing business b / c of the ignorance of the general public on how much money is involved.