Sentences with phrase «public is skeptical about»

Furthermore, a large portion of the public is skeptical about Climate Catastrophe, so demanding that skeptical scientists be jailed implies that 30 - 70 % of US citizens should be jailed too.

He admits that the public is skeptical about this project, much the way they were dubious about plug - in hybrids just a few years ago.

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While venture capitalists, mutual funds and other private investors can only see upside in a zero - interest environment where growth is hard to find, public investors would be skeptical of a public Uber, Smith explains, just as they've asked tough questions about companies like Twitter and Yelp.

The civil engineers and project managers who do the infrastructure building are less skeptical about the role of the public sector than privatization advocates.

The issue of using public funds could pave the way for tax money paying for Qurans and prayer mats and stuff you'd hate worse than I would, and believe me, I am pretty skeptical about Muslims.

The University Teachers Association of Ghana (UTAG) says it is skeptical about the announcement by government that it has lifted an embargo on the recruitment of lecturers into public universities.

The «political atmospherics» of the meeting might polish Trump's optics, but Bledsoe is skeptical about its influence on public policy, which is being overseen in some cases by transition officials who question the scientific findings on global warming.

«Other researchers were skeptical about whether it is possible to make an accurate match between public records and individuals taking part in a life - long study, but New Zealand's national databases are very reliable and Dunedin Study members have given us great information for matching over the years,» said Terrie Moffitt, the Nannerl O. Keohane University Professor in Duke's departments of psychology & neuroscience and psychiatry & behavioral sciences.

The public is deeply skeptical about the profession — but given the problems of addiction, depression and other forms of mental illness, we need it more than ever

Initially, I was a bit skeptical about the upswing of wearing these closet classics in public.

Teachers have been widely skeptical and concerned about public education under President Donald Trump and Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos.

It has inspired a proposed school board resolution opposing charters, and a series of protests led by UTLA leadership who are not only concerned about the expansion of charters, but are also skeptical of philanthropists investing millions of dollars in public education.

We must put our faces and reputations behind the games we admire and explain to a skeptical public why violent games like Bioshock, Metro 2033, and The Walking Dead really are about more than plugging baddies with bullets and ray - guns.

Still there is the problem about the consumer information before launch, we do have the right to know what a game is before buying it, but that doesn't say nothing about «before launch», we don't need to instabuy games on launch (neither preorder it) So, I'm always skeptical about reviews (before and after launch anyway), what makes me buy a game is general public review and to see how the game plays by an «average joe».

When independent curator Lance Fung was approached by the Atlantic City Alliance (ACA) in March 2012, he was skeptical about getting involved with Artlantic, an ambitious public art project set in a coastal town better known for casinos and beauty pageants.

I am very skeptical about the ability of climate scientists to convey that idea to the public.

It's no wonder that a large body of the public remains skeptical about the global warming community's projections of catastrophe 30 years from now.

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.

Mark Bowen, the author of «Censoring Science: Inside the Political Attack on Dr. James Hansen and the Truth About Global Warming» (Fresh Air interview) said he was initially skeptical about the investigation, but was pleasantly surprised that it captured not only the basic violations of the public trust, but also dealt with «the subtler aspects of censorship — the delaying of information, the sorts of intimidation that cause self censorship.&rAbout Global Warming» (Fresh Air interview) said he was initially skeptical about the investigation, but was pleasantly surprised that it captured not only the basic violations of the public trust, but also dealt with «the subtler aspects of censorship — the delaying of information, the sorts of intimidation that cause self censorship.&rabout the investigation, but was pleasantly surprised that it captured not only the basic violations of the public trust, but also dealt with «the subtler aspects of censorship — the delaying of information, the sorts of intimidation that cause self censorship.»

For an example of that regarding efforts to prompt the general public to ignore people who are skeptical about catastrophic man - caused global warming, we are blessed with a particular infographic........

The general public also tends to be skeptical about the scientific understanding of GMO effects.

EC: There are many Americans who are very skeptical about the subject of climate change and a lot of them are very mistrustful of scientists generally, so how are you and other folks at the Missouri Botanical Garden communicating the importance of science to the public?

Because I write here a lot, the reasons that I am a «lukewarmer» and «skeptical» of strong claims about the magnitude and dangers of CO2 - induced warming and the need for or likely effectiveness of public policies are public knowledge already.

They are in it for the money, the status, and for their constant, expense - paid trips to vacation spots around the world to strategize about how to sell their snake oil to an increasingly skeptical public.

It might appear to a skeptical person that Prof. Mann's skill at public engagement about climate science is matched by his skill at climate reconstruction.

MS: This group, who has now been in negative light in public, I know them and I have discussed with them, it has been slightly hard for them over the years... They have been somehow skeptical about this Medieval Warm Period and have tried to hide it to some extent.

Below are the authors» 2.5 - page New Republic article, which gives a good presentation of their overall approach, plus (of interest to those who are skeptical about the need for large public investment), excerpts from a San Francisco Chronicle story showing how four generations of technological innovations in Silicon Valley — radio, vacuum tubes transistors and chips — all could NOT have happened without massive federal funds, mostly from the Defense Department.

Research now shows that climate messages can influence public beliefs about the scientific consensus on climate change, particularly in the places that are initially more skeptical.

But anytime data are adjusted long after they are disseminated to the public, people are going to be skeptical about the re-analysis.

They claimed that the problem has been that fossil fuel interests have massively outspent underdog environmental groups, funding skeptics to mislead the public and duping the media into giving too much credence to skeptical views about climate change.

A skeptical public repeatedly has been told that questions about purported global warming are closed.

I'm skeptical that complaints about lawyer overpopulation are entirely premised on the public interest.

Law schools should not be focusing on appellate advocacy but rather on delivering legal services to an increasingly disenfranchised public, and a corporate world increasingly skeptical about the value of outside counsel.

Those lawyers who are actually involved in either managing or delivering pro bono services may be somewhat more skeptical than their colleagues about the pervasiveness of a public service mentality in the legal profession.

Since its inception and subsequent mass release into the public space, many investors have been skeptical about getting involved with bitcoin.