Sentences with phrase «with political biases»

Do those news sources have whole sections and large articles devoted to controversies, mainly dealing with political biases?

It always feels different to the people who want it to be different i.e. Doomsdayers, people with political bias, the general negative nancy.

CNN has a limited section on journalistic failures, that leads with political bias.

The group's statement signed by the chairman, Ibrahim Abiodun which was made available to the Nigeria Politics Online on Monday, noted that the move is tainted with political bias.

Rather than subscribe to all these other magazines and newspapers (and deal with the political bias each one of them offers!)

And as long as businessmen with a vested interest (Exxon / Mobil, Peabody Coal, power companies), and economists with a political bias (CEI, Heartland, Cato, Wall Street), and lawyers (Bachmann, Cornyn, Cantor) believe that they know more about global warming than climate scientists, nothing will get done to combat global warming.

Equally disturbing, when scientific bias converges with political bias, published conclusions can be as devoid of reality as the epicycles that defended the consensus belief of an earth - centered solar system for two thousand years.

Not exact matches

As a political philosopher who studies how abstract moral notions such as justice apply to political institutions, I am more concerned with the fact that under - counting the undocumented might introduce bias into our public policy.

Facebook said its investigation found no evidence of bias but held a meeting with big names from conservative political and media circles that seemed to mend fences for a time.

That certainly doesn't seem like an overly biased attempt to whip up a baseless investigation with political motives.

It's a little hard not to be slightly biased when one side of the political spectrum is filled with a group of fanatical evangelicals whose highest achievement was passing the 4th grade.

Your post shows your political bias, and associating atheism with liberalism is just plain dumb.

Liberation theology is conducted in a hermeneutical circle which can be entered only in an act of solidarity with the oppressed of the world, an act of such immediacy and commitment that it circumvents the danger of ideological bias normally inherent in political choices.2 From this hermeneutically privileged standpoint, liberation theology proceeds to a social scientific analysis of the situation, which is intended to uncover the structures of oppression and the extensive ideological biases both of the oppressors and of their attendant theologies.

I wanted to agree with my students; it's natural for Christians to insist that only our «Jesus bias» informs our political attitudes.

(Though according to Glenn Greenwald, Paul along with Edwards and Huckabee still aren't getting the recognition they deserve for reasons that reveal profound biases in our political system.)

Other research in political psychology suggests that the no campaign has had a much easier job — those inclined to political conservatism are more likely to have a «negativity bias» in their response to environmental stimuli — conservatives have more of a physiological reaction to potential threats in the environment and subsequently devote more psychological resources towards dealing with them: conservatives, quite literately, see more things that could go wrong than liberals.

The bias is stronger on the political left, and with women, but is present across the political spectrum and in both genders.

«Owelle Rochas Okorocha had the vision to look beyond ethnic bias and align his political interest and that of his people with that of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), even when many in this region did not have such foresight.»

Those who disagree with what she has fought for — namely equal marriage, the campaign against FGM and work to reduce gender and racial bias — are merely taking an easy shot at a political opponent.

The petition copied to Mr Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and the Conference of States Parties to the UN Convention against Corruption reads in part: «SERAP considers these amendments to be in bad faith, patently an abuse of legislative powers, politically biased, and demonstrably unjustified in a democratic and representative society governed by the rule of law, and incompatible with the country's international human rights obligations and commitments particularly the UN Convention against Corruption, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, and the African Charter on Human and Peoples» Rights, which Nigeria has ratified.»

House Democrats have asked the Department of Justice to provide them with evidence showing the FBI had political bias against Hillary Clinton during the presidential campaign.

It is barred by regulation from conducting itself with the same bias as the press, but it still deals with a political culture in which the press has a disproportionate influence on events.

Repeatedly targeting people with misinformation that is designed to appeal to their political biases may well influence public attitudes, cause moral outrage, and drive partisans further apart, especially when we're given the false impression that everyone else in our social network is espousing the same opinion.

That liberals are just as guilty of antiscience bias comports more with accounts of humans chomping canines, and yet those on the left are just as skeptical of well - established science when findings clash with their political ideologies, such as with GMOs, nuclear power, genetic engineering and evolutionary psychology — skepticism of the last I call «cognitive creationism» for its endorsement of a blank - slate model of the mind in which natural selection operated on humans only from the neck down.

In response to separate allegations of political bias in its autocomplete algorithm, Google wrote in a June blog post that it designed its autocomplete algorithm to avoid completing searches for personal names with «offensive or disparaging» words.

Bent Flyvbjerg makes a valid criticism of the political mindset behind many megaprojects, with favourable bias applying to both costs...

A co-production of leading indie studio A24 and Amazon, the six - episode series is a satirical mashup of tropes aimed at our collective nostalgia, political biases, and misguided nationalism, with a solid stream of self - aware idiocy that keeps the show from becoming an obnoxious lecture on patriotism.

As these changes almost dictate, there is also a shift in political partisanship: for with the socially disadvantaged comes a big influx of Democrats, and the original Republican bias is reduced considerably.

By the same token they find that the political manipulations where it concerns the stimulation of racial, religious and gender biases, are not matters they choose to be overly concerned with and more inter-racial, and inter-religious partnerships / marriages are being embarked on.

Policy makers, civic leaders, and media outlets are encouraged to scrutinize this report with skepticism, recognizing it for what it is: an error - ridden document commissioned by a biased organization with a political agenda and conclusion in mind.

Some of the topics and tools preservice teachers have implemented with their students include using digital images and Google Earth to explore the Civil War and Reconstruction, using blogs and blogging to examine the issue of personal rights and freedoms, using video podcasts to examine issues of bias in global media reports of issues, and using Internet resources and video to explore changing political affiliations in post-World War II Europe.

With the steady stream of news coming across the internet, there is no shortage of opposing viewpoints, political leanings, and outright bias to the reporting.

A few of the images in it give away some left - leaning political bias, but the chapters full of general principles and the specific debate tactics used successfully by the author are extraordinarily valuable to anyone with a point of view they want to verify and defend.

This book provides new insights into the nature of political bias with regards to evidence and critically considers what an «improved» use of evidence would look like from a policymaking perspective.Part I describes the great potential for evidence to help achieve social goals, as well as the challenges raised by the political nature of policymaking.

One of the reasons investors tend to invest most of their money at home (home country bias) is because they feel comfortable with their knowledge of the political climate.

She has campaigned to stop jail expansion; confront police violence; reveal prosecutorial misconduct; bring visibility to women prisoners, political prisoners, and people confined to control units; interrupt gender discrimination and bias within prisons, policing, and sentencing; challenge the human rights abuses of prisoners, former prisoners and their family members, and experiment with decarceration models for shrinking the system.

Corresponding to her critically acclaimed exhibition Harriet Tubman and Other Truths [which was co-produced by Grounds For Sculpture and Goya Contemporary, with guest curators Patterson Sims and Lowery Sims], this latest exhibition [curated by Amy Eva Raehse] further develops narrative around social and political injustices, sexism, racism, violence, systems of power, and biases within the artist's personal history, and our collective experience.

He became increasingly fascinated with British journalists» lack of concern to conceal their political bias and to find that in a nation of libel tourism, journalists themselves drift regularly into the scandalous, in often - hilarious fashion.

I note with interest Pat's attempt to hoist this site on the cleft stick of «disclosure»: either the authors reveal their political beliefs and economic resources and expose themselves to attack because of affiliations that don't guarantee objectivity to Pat's satisfaction, or their integrity is impugned by the implication that they are hiding their biases.

So, while your political biases may want it to be scientifically correct that the «backward, stunted anti-capitalist agrarian economies» are to blame and that capitalism is the savior, the science disagrees with you.

If realclimate was seen as having a political bias the science could be seen as biased, and Realclimate would lose credibility with the public.

These guys came in with a set of assumptions on every single issue, biased toward their friends, political allies, and campaign financiers (and not to mention their former colleagues and family members and themselves) in the fossil fuel businesses — and every single thing they have done has advanced the wealth of those people, in those industries.

It eliminates bias and enhances transparency, and that's something that all ends of the political spectrum have a hard time disagreeing with.

His essay represents the worst case of rebuttal — he starts with political agenda, consensus, Kyoto, and then then upfront accuses Dr. Jaworowski with «extravagant claims of bias and dishonesty in the scientific community».

On the one hand, it is very important for the political right to have this echo chamber out there — and the arguments generated by conservative think tanks would interact with the biased reasoning processes that are the subject of my piece in a kind of one - two combination.

I suspect with those aggregate factors, it might receive more than three mentions, but that doesn't necessarily point to «political bias» (your second question) if you mean ideology, though that depends on your def there too.

If an intelligent, analytical conservative is more likely to go with his or her crowd, then who is to say that (regardless of political affiliation) scientists wouldn't be victims of their own cultural biases?

Perhaps the cognitive ability to consider variations that might be more successful has some correlation with the liberal political bias because the authoritarian preference for fixed forms among conservatives is less adaptive.

The analogy with climate science is that the dominant moral and political beliefs of climate scientists are introducing problems and biases into climate research.

Real - world costs are always filtered through a set of civic, financial, and political institutions with histories and biases.