Sentences with phrase «with false balances»

In the words of Amos, these agents are people who make «the ephah small and the shekel great, and deal deceitfully with false balances,» who buy «the poor for silver and the needy for a pair of sandals, and sell the refuse of the wheat.»

Autism Awareness Month isn't as full of news stories about autism with false balance between science and antivaccine pseudoscience advocates as it was in years past.

Not exact matches

The risk with that kind of approach is that obvious falsehoods or offensive views get treated as though they were valid through a false attempt at balance.

'» Like many of his peers, Noah challenges the «false equivalency» that prompts journalists to balance critical coverage of one candidate with equally tough coverage of the opposition.

«No prophet is acceptable in his village» comes from Luke 4:24; Thomas balances the saying with the false addition, «no physician heals those who know him» (31).

This kind of false balance becomes a problem when one side is based on knowledge and the other is merely an opinion, as often occurs when policy problems intersect with science.

Given the lack of mortality benefit of screening, and the moderate to substantial harms that could result from false - positive screeningtest results and subsequent surgery, the USPSTF concludes with moderate certainty that the harms of screening for ovarian cancer outweigh the benefit, and the net balance of the benefit and harms of screening is negative.

She's also wearing some false lashes, balanced out with a thick cat - eye.

Be careful to find the right balance with gestures and don't come across as childish or false.

Meeting up in Columbia, Missouri, where the Ross's Western screened at the 2015 True / False Film Fest, they discuss the adventurous aspects of their films, the artistic ambitions that can hide behind an unpretentious demeanor, and the challenges of balancing an enjoyable life with the task of documenting the lives of others.

The DOJ argues that when a loan with known origination errors is certified by the lender to the FHA, with a subsequent claim submitted by the lender to the FHA after a default, the lender is in violation of the False Claims Act — because they knew or should have known the loan had defects when they submitted their certification, and yet still allowed the government to sustain a loss when the FHA paid out of the loan balance.

Regulators said the financial giant sold false debts to third - party collectors, including accounts with unlawfully obtained judgments, inaccurate balances, and paid - off balances — as well as selling debts that were owed by borrowers who are now dead.

Now if you strip away all that false precision, you have A fairly well known forcing that should produce SOME warming with SOME indeterminate degree of variation related to two or more competing semi-linear internal responses to all forcings, some of which aren't very well balanced.

«With current debate around the dangers of providing a false sense of «balance» on a topic as societally important as climate change, we're quite astonished that The Times has taken the decision to put such a non-story on its front page.

The Climate Wars was a master of false balance gradually building the idea that sceptical views were being considered while then dismissing each idea with authority.

With this report out, it's time the media move on from the false - balance discussion of whether climate change is established by science and onto the action and impacts.

The biggest contribution to CNN's bad showing was due to false balance, having deniers on panels along with real scientists.

Climate media coverage was likewise a mixed bag, with continued false balance and inaccurate reporting from the politically conservative media, also seeping into the BBC.

This finding is consistent with Boykoff's findings that as of 2006, false balance relative to the fundamentals of climate science had virtually disappeared from coverage at the 5 national trend - setting organizations he examined.

First among them is false balance, which the book describes as giving false industry - friendly claims about climate change «an equal place on the media stage with actual science.»

I have been trying to convince scientists that this site presents a level playing field where the true balance of science can emerge, and I've been rebuffed with the idea that this site is another example of «false balance», wherein the politically structured arguments will again take precedence.

He criticised the World at One report for giving «equal time to a well - known expert and to an Australian retired geologist with no background in the field: in my view a classic case of «false balance».»

One solid victory was when the BBC announced they will no longer follow a pattern of false balance when dealing with science denial — putting a crank up against the consensus of scientific opinion as if they were equal.

A recent episode of CBS Sunday Morning about ESP, however, was worse than false balance, it was a throwback to the early days of credulous reporting about the paranormal with only token skepticism.

This also isn't the first time that PBS News Hour has consulted with the Heartland Institute to provide false balance for a climate story.

The BBC Trust, in a report four years in the making, said that the network pays so much attention to the appearance of impartiality that many of its broadcasts end up with a «false balance» — giving equal time and attention to often discredited ideas.

This is why the problem of false balance in media is so important, and why the Kochs have done such a great job in creating phony think tanks («crank tanks») populated with folks like Myron Ebell who, IMHO, just lie for pay, all day long, and provide the science - free views the media needs.

And yet, with the sole exception of CBS» «Face the Nation,» all of the major networks got tripped up by the false balance trap: in the interest of showing «both sides» of the climate debate, they gave a platform to people who «feel,» against all scientific evidence, that man - made climate change isn't real, thus feeding into the fallacy that it's something that can be debated at all.