They're just a smokescreen for people's real objections, not to the science, but to the perceived solutions - taxes and government control.
"If people don't like the perceived solutions to a problem such as air pollution, they find reasons to doubt that it really is a problem, and hence to discount all those scientists who say that it is".
viii) Lastly, in-depth and key-informant interviews were conducted with key people involved in running CBE at the institutions and CBE sites to assess how CBE was implemented, challenges experienced and perceived solutions.
For every perceived solution, a potential problem awaits.
The excerpt was from a lengthy discussion of the distinctions between depression and grief; it is clear from this extended discussion in the book that the meaning of the phrase should be "In depression, death is the (perceived) solution to the pain".
We read stories of how much money corporate America is spending on cyber security and wonder out loud whether their strategic initiatives are "feel good" publicity for the consuming public and whether they really grasp the nature of the threat or just throwing dollars at a perceived "solution set".
Furthermore, in the literature, most of the supervised channel-shortening criteria formulations, such as MSSNR [10], MGSNR [11], min-ISI [12], MBR [13] and SINR-max [14], are mainly based on the combined channel-plus-equalizer IR expression and their optimum TEQs which are perceived as solutions of algebra linear equations.
"There are solutions among the farmers that are not being exploited because there is already this perceived technological solution to the problem.
The differences between illnesses with a perceived biomedical solution compared to those considered suitable for treatment by traditional remedies and the subsequent impact on care-seeking patterns requires more investigation.
Phil Yates, who was the snooker correspondent for the Times of London for twenty years, compares O'Sullivan to a savant, able to perceive mathematical solutions without knowing how or why.
Although all three phases of delay are influenced by cultural factors, these influences appear to be most pronounced in the first phase of delay during which the existence of a problem is perceived, the possible solutions to the problem are debated, and a decision is made to seek a solution to the problem as perceived.
