Sentences with phrase «to misinform the public»

Exxon was recently accused by the Union of Concerned Scientists of funding a Big Tobacco — style PR campaign — to the tune of $ 16 million over the past 10 years — to misinform the public on climate science.

In a scientific sense it's difficult to take them seriously, even though they do enormous damage by misinforming the public.

Enviro - activists love to say greedy fossil fuel industry executives hired lying shill scientists to misinform the public away from believing the settled science of catastrophic man - caused global warming.

People like Annie Leonard have opened up a new front in the battle: misguided activists who misinform the public and cause us to waste energy on non-constructive debates.

Some political analysts speculate that the rise of fake news being shared on Facebook has led to a more misinformed public and contributed to Donald Trump's 2016 presidential victory.

This is gaming in 2017, and when misinformed public outcry can force developers to change the game they've worked so hard to create, that's not a win for us, it breeds chaos.

Contrary to the expectations of many Nigerians that Mrs Husseina Mohammed, a civil servant in kogi state attached to the Teaching Service Commission will be compensated for her honesty in returning the sum of N1.8 M mistakenly paid into her account amid the current hardship, the state government has issued her a query for allegedly misinforming the public about the excess salary mistakenly paid into her account.

The failure to take this route - no doubt connected to New Labour's deep neurosis about the T - word - has left the government battling against a deeply misinformed public debate.

Although the money has paid for such motherhood - and - apple - pie reform efforts as creating a network of science contacts at schools around the country, David told Science that she finds it «shocking» that NSTA would have ties to a company «that has spent millions misinforming the public about global warming.»

But it's also impossible to legitimately debate what the right level of public school funding should be when bureaucrats misinform the public about what public school funding currently is.

The cases make the claim that the «Global Climate Coalition» was a front group operating in tobacco industry - like fashion with the fossil fuel company defendants to misinform the public while supposedly knowing their «contrarian» views were unfounded.

Rather than directly misinform the public, they funneled money to conservative think tanks who did the dirty work as Merchants of Doubt.

... leaves readers with such an inaccurate and misleading impression of the evidence on the causes of climate change that is documented in the scientific literature... My analysis indicates that (your company) provided more that $ 2.9 million to organizations in the United States which misinformed the public about climate change through their websites.»

We are concerned that this article misinforms the public about obtaining mortgage advice, and exposes real estate industry members to an unnecessary risk of facing disciplinary measures or civil liability.

Jeshua, if that were the case then religious authorities wouldn't spend so much time trying to control information, trying to pass off their beliefs as scientific, or attempting to misinform the public on genuine scientific explanations that happen to contradict those beliefs.

Ever since the constitutional decision was made, publishers [i.e., of movies & music] have tried to reverse it by misinforming the public.

is potentially the killer of the lawsuit, and if more people fully comprehend his position, it could kill the entire notion of an «industry conspiracy to misinform the public about global warming.»

Senator Carl Levin, Chair of the Subcommittee at the time, said JPMorgan «piled on risk, hid losses, disregarded risk limits, manipulated risk models, dodged oversight, and misinformed the public.»

teapatriot, you fail to understand that the people who were shut down were the retards who attempted to misinform the public.

In some cases, as was pointed out in Chapter 10, an absolute right to speak could actually subvert and defeat the democratic process, such as the «right» of an advertiser to misinform the public, or the «right» of a broadcaster to attack someone without allowing an opportunity for that person to reply.

Not only does it misinform the public and strip the dignity of victims, but it feeds into the very same objectifying and voyeuristic behaviours we're fighting against in the first place.

This abstract, together with the press release, offers insufficient evidence to justify giving a negative perception about low kilojoule beverages and misinform the public.

If we continue to misinform the public that these «GF Oats» are safe for celiacs than we are doing the community a disservice and more people will get sick by no fault of their own.

Di Comenico has close links with a number of Italian top tier sides, including most crucially Juventus and Fiorentina, and there seems little reason to believe he would deliberately seek to misinform the public.

No doubt, if a mother wishes to nurse her child beyond the first few months when her baby is small, she will need to prepare herself mentally for the likely disapproval of a misinformed public that still is not at all accepting of the many benefits of extending the breastfeeding relationship well past a child's first birthday.

«I find your continued conduct both disingenuous and disgraceful when your clear intent is to mislead and misinform the public on this issue,» Avella wrote.

In the first lecture, Thompson began by evaluating the claim that Plato had now won the argument and that the misinformed public dialogue of contemporary western nations was beginning to threaten their democratic foundations.

And these investments are yielding positive results and I need to put to rest a misconception that is constantly bandied about in the media to misinform the public that the agriculture sector is in decline; the agriculture sector is not in decline.»

Umanah, who described such allegations by some alleged agents of the All Progressives Congress, APC, and the misinformed public as unfounded and spurious, wondered why some people were still peddling false rumours on the matter even when DSS has yet to present any of the items said to have been found.

«Again, it's the idea of it makes the police officer's life much more difficult when we're either misinforming the public about the law, or misinterpreting the law.

«They're purposely trying to misinform the public.»

Koch - funded groups have developed «junk science» asserting that polar bears are not threatened by climate - induced melting of Arctic sea ice, promoted the notion that climate scientists are suppressing alternative findings, and financed studies that misinform the public on renewable energy benefits, Greenpeace says.

In recent years, however, the manipulation, suppression, and distortion of federal government science has misinformed the public and led to poor policy decisions.

In order to sell processed food, industries may fund research that ultimately can misinform the public.

Yesterday, the Center for American Progress and American Federation of Teachers fumbled the ball at their event yesterday attempting to misinform the public about the history of segregation in this country.

Good Morning Yesterday, the Center for American Progress and American Federation of Teachers fumbled the ball at their event yesterday attempting to misinform the public about the history of segregation in this country.

That's what the profit - hungry media do to confuse and misinform the public.

While the prime functions of media like the TV and the News Paper is to keep the public well informed of the news and other events - they often end up misinforming the public.

Anyone that has had the pleasure of sharing their home and their lives with this loyal, dependable, and loving breed has without a doubt experienced the prejudice from the misinformed public.

It was a disappointing session for those of interested in saving the lives of companion animals — one made worse by the kind of lazy, irresponsible media coverage that only serves to misinform the public.