Sentences with phrase «willful blindness of»

This willful blindness of the masses is largely due to the total betrayal of the truth by the vast majority of the science community and all of mainstream media, both of whom are heavily invested in covering up the crimes of their paymasters.

But is this actually the primary factor behind the perplexing and willful blindness of the masses?

Also addressed should be the willful blindness of a large coterie of important scientists and journal editors.

The continuing willful blindness of political advocates is less worriesome, but no less a signature of the seduction inner certitude exerts against human rationality.

Indeed, but the willful blindness of progressive politicians in the face of readily available skeptical information, does not equate to a monopoly.

Addressing the severe mental strain placed on women in a culture that corralled their ambitions; the willful blindness of Victorian doctors to the existence of women's sexual pleasure; and hand cramps?

The willful blindness of the liberation theologians, their unwillingness to search in the world of social theory beyond the lucubrations of socialism, has had very high costs for the poor during these past twenty years.

Not exact matches

It's sad that so many believers choose willful blindness with regard to evolution, and some other sciences, as well as willful blindness to the human rights of some minority groups.

The willful blindness Eberstadt condemns in liberationists and Marxist professors, therefore, is not so bad as that of the pro-life journals.

The willful blindness and oppression of the NCB movement are more than I can stand, and I sincerely hope this movement wanes before my own children give birth.

At the film festival: Bruce LaBruce's subversive masterpiece, Gerontophilia, a lovely rom - com in which everybody fucks one another across all age and gender borders — desire shall bind us together; Juno Mak's Rigor Mortis, a touching albeit grim look at loss and damnation in the form of a Chinese hopping - vampire movie, with many a nod to the subgenre's clichés and conventions; Jealousy, Philippe Garrel's latest tale of love ground down by the mill of daily life, raw and naked even by his ascetic standards; Hayao Miyazaki's troublesome The Wind Rises, which frames the story of a fighter - plane designer as a grand romance of struggle and failure, with animation's supreme living master contemplating the price mankind can sometimes pay in the name of one dreamer's self - fulfillment, and the willful blindness and egocentricity it takes to realize one's vision; and finally to Yorgos Lanthimos's Necktie and Athina Rachel Tsangari's 24 Frames Per Century, their contributions to the Venice 70: Future Reloaded omnibus, not to mention the untitled pieces by Jean - Marie Straub, Monte Hellman, Amit Dutta, and Haile Gerima.

Effectively decked out in large, period - perfect eyeglasses, Graham plays Dorothy as a zealously supportive wife and mother whose willful blindness is a source of strength.

Seal's willful blindness to the real - world consequences of his actions extends to Liman and Spinelli too.

To fail to see the timely poignancy of Gatson's work amounts to the same willful blindness that allows for all manners of misguidedness.

Despite the remarkable efforts of deniers, naysayers, and those suffering from hysterical deafness, willful blindness and elective mutism, the good scientific evidence of climate change we share is sufficient for us to see our predicament.

Many too many of our brothers and sisters have chosen to remain silent, even to the extent of adopting poses of hysterical blindness, willful deafness and elective mutism: the well - known and widely used «see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil» ploy.

Jim D's willful blindness to this, in support of his own far - left ideology and desire that political expansion continue untroubled, are what explain his dishonesty and desire to try and put his own silly words in my mouth — his «conspiracy» strawman.

This narrative is so astoundingly false from so many directions, the fact such a dialog is even occurring is a true testimony to the willful (paid) blindness and insanity of the «science» community.

Question Are we «plucked chickens», to abandon human morality to the soul-less machinations of market fundamentalism's willful ignorance and moral blindness?

Joshua, if you haven't seen any change post Climategate it can only be an instance of willful blindness.

If you believe or even care about Penn State's white wash of Mikey Mann you probably believe CBS's «investigation» that concluded that Dannie Rather and Mary Mapes were 100 % free of political bias in either case you're beyond gullible and entering the area of willful blindness.

Their blindness is willful and ideological, not a failure of the «knowledge free market.»

Climate science does this: it ignores data to the point of willful blindness, avoids data that contradicts its worldview in order that its comfortable theory is not challenged.

«If we are in a position of being able to act, and we see something going on and we refuse to acknowledge the threat or act on it, we can be taken to court for willful blindness.»

climate change deniers... who think nothing of the risk to our planet and the burden that their willful blindness will leave to future generations.

but I'd say underlying that would be a kind of willful blindness.

The real issue and taboo is what cultural do all of these groups have in common that create such a willful blindness that existed in the AGW movement and reaction?

Moreover, in a clear demonstration of willful blindness, the government persists in granting more contracts and approvals to new wind power projects.

In the approach to the model / observation discrepancy, we see the same sort of willful blindness that the evidence does not support the model outputs to the extent that the models provide zero evidence to support AGW.

After all the spreading of uncertainty, obstructionism, ideological idiocy, willful blindness, hysterical deafness, elective mutism and infidelity to science that we have seen from many too many economic powerbrokers, their bought - and - paid - for politicians, the absurdly enriched «talking heads» in the mass media, and those sheepish minions of «benefactors» who will say and do anything to promote their selfish interests, it is truly refreshing to anticipate that change is in the offing; that cooperation with the respected nations of the world is on the horizon; that a new day is finally dawning.

However, ignorance of Charter standards must not be rewarded or encouraged and negligence or willful blindness can not be equated with good faith.»

In a 2 - 3 decision, the majority of the appeal panel found the hearing panel, in deciding to disbar Abbott for knowingly assisting in mortgage fraud based on willful blindness, failed to put sufficient weight on the «extraordinary delay that took place here.»

The accused can not rely on a mistaken belief that arose because of his or her self - induced intoxication or out of reckless or willful blindness.

Hackland argued this was not a bona fide error in judgment but a lack of diligence amounting to «willful blindness.»

There are external indicia of course — one's offspring earnestly advising how fat and bald you are, strangers calling you «sir» straight to your face with nary a hint of sarcasm — but I purposely adopt a stance of willful blindness regarding those.

[31] «Willful blindness» and «recklessness» are two states of mind that are tantamount to knowledge.

I am far from alone in always being on the lookout for better ways to do things, and for dreaming up some of my own, but I will never swallow the codswallop that we have to compromise our hard - won independence and position in society in order to access some hoped for, dubious innovations that, it is falsely or naively claimed, can not be achieved except through ABS, especially when the harms of adopting ABS are so obvious and so apparent from the lessons of history, economics, human nature, politics, physics * and philosophy that I sometimes wonder if there is some willful blindness at play.

This progression is consistent with the migration of other Supreme Court rules from one intellectual property field into another; for example, the application of the patent doctrine of willful blindness in copyright cases, [28] and the extension of eBay's [29] rule regarding irreparable harm in patent permanent injunction applications to preliminary injunctions in both trademark and copyright cases.

There was no evidence of willful blindness in this case.

The author of Willful Blindness, Margaret Heffernan, recently blogged: «What academic research into organizational silence shows is that people silence their fears and concerns either because they are afraid of retribution from bosses or co-workers (this is the chief cause in the U.S.) or they feel speaking up would be futile because nothing would change (this is the chief cause in Europe).»

Also in 2015, the SCC issued Guindon v. Canada, which upheld a penalty imposed on Julie Guindon pursuant to s. 163.2 of the Income Tax Act for providing «flawed and misleading» advice to her clients, advice which was «indicative either of complete disregard of the law and whether it was complied with or not or of willful blindness.»

Heffernan's book gives many examples and references in describing willful blindness as a psychological phenomenon by which human beings, through a series of small decisions made over a period of time, unconsciously choose to perceive a reality that preserves their own interests.

Heffernan would have us believe willful blindness is endemic in all aspects of our lives — whether it's the refusal to believe our spouse is having an affair, or to see illegal misconduct in the workplace.

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