Sentences with phrase «public misunderstanding about»

There is currently widespread public misunderstanding about the degree of scientific consensus on human - caused climate change, both in the US as well as internationally.

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As to the FAQ released specifically for investors and workers, Joshua Waldbeser, of counsel with Drinker Biddle & Reath, opines that DOL's intentions «appear to be not just limited to educating investors about the fiduciary rule generally, but also to address some very specific misunderstandings, and to influence public perceptions» about the rule.

Dolf DeRovira, President & CEO of Flavor Dynamics, mentioned many of the fears and misunderstandings that proliferate in the public's perceptions about food during his R&D Seminar presentation.

She notes in a recent article for a professional journal that at least one GFI publication she has reviewed advised parents to avoid spanking their children in public, to be careful about neighbors hearing their children's cries in apartment buildings and «to instruct one's children not to tell anyone — even the child's other parent in a divorce situation — about occurring chastisement (GFI's euphemism for corporal punishment), due to potential «misunderstandings.»»

«There is also a lack of public understanding about how vaccines work — and again, this misunderstanding seems to be getting worse.»

Clegg: If you're not clear about what the public interest is then that creates potential for a lot of misunderstandings

Poor risk communication about the tremors that preceded the deadly quake led to widespread misunderstanding and confusion among the general public.

The reasons include inadequate provider education and misunderstandings about addiction medications by the public, health care providers, insurers, and patients.

Lomborg claims in his rebuttal that «Holdren could find little but a badly translated word and a necessary specification for nuclear energy production in this chapter».8 Actually, as my original critique indicated to the extent practical in the space available, and as Lomborgs rebuttal and this response make even plainer, his energy chapter is so permeated with misunderstandings, misreadings, misrepresentations, and blunders of other sorts that it can not be considered a positive contribution to public or policy - maker understanding, notwithstanding its managing to get right a few (already well known) truths about the subject.

It isn't always easy to hear complaints and misunderstandings about the Common Core, new standards meant to increase critical thinking and problem - solving skills in the nation's 100,000 public elementary and secondary schools.

While Isotopious and Jack Maloney are mainly concern trolling, they do raise an important point about the public's misunderstanding of the role of models in science.

I agree with Olson, utterly, that there's not enough experimentation, too much fear of failure and also far too much fear and misunderstanding at scientific institutions, from America's universities to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, about the obligation and responsibility to engage the public in a sustained way.

«Recent surveys of meteorologists have indicated that their belief or disbelief in human cause trying climate change is really an extension of the broader public misunderstanding, and that's a real problem because meteorologists are among the most trusted messengers of information about climate change.»

I have not read Goodwin's piece in detail, but from the excerpts I read here I judge that she assumes the scientific evidence is primarily correct for the scientist / advocate to argue their AGW cases and what she recommends is some generalized strategy to regain or gain «trust» from some «misunderstandings» of the public about climate scientists.

This post seeks to correct the public misunderstandings that these articles may cause, primarily about the claim of arctic «cooling» but also about comparisons between the DMI 2m Arctic absolute temperature time series and GISS temperature anomaly data from the Arctic region.

Public discussions about the natural greenhouse effect and climate sensitivity to rising CO2 concentrations often indicate a misunderstanding of the roles of long lived greenhouse gases (LLGHGs) relative to those of water vapour and cloud feedbacks within the climate system.

An initiative of the Canadian Newspaper Association (CNA) the CNA Freedom of Information Audit 2007 shows ``... persistent delays and misunderstandings in the very system that is designed to guarantee the public's right to information about government decisions.»

In the wake of a landmark 2016 Supreme Court of Canada case, R v. Jordan, in which the top court set strict timelines to bring an accused person to trial, experts have said that one of the biggest misunderstandings from the public about the ruling is that defence lawyers will prolong a case until reaching the time limit and then request that it be stayed.

Not that Samsung needs my assistance, by any stretch of the imagination, but I feel like there is still some misunderstanding in the public about what goes on in a Samsung device.