As with all campus-speech debates, the free-speech argument obscures the matter of resources: college budgets, Twitter accounts, and, yes, the limited resource that is intellectual legitimacy.
And the term "EMR" obscures the key matter at hand here.
In emphasising choice, desire and attitude, ABC obscures the questions that matter, which are about how social obligations and conventions evolve and with what environmental cost.
And when White people say, "All Lives Matter," it obscures the reality of this systemic racism.
The lab test approach, he says, obscures the fact that what really matters is whether a drug prevents disease.
The science-based approach, Dr. Nestle believes, also obscures the point that "other issues also matter".
The numbers matter: underreporting of Lyme disease obscures the true burden of the illnesses, on individuals as well as on health-care systems.
But minor matters of this sort cannot obscure the excellence of the essay as a whole, which contains much good advice, many wholesome truths, and much common sense.
Inferences from a generic model could obscure the very features that matter most to the surgeon.
By focusing almost exclusively on tactics, the election obscured the questions that really matter: What should the United States demand when it finally talks to Iran?
A court decision that upholds academic freedom on this matter should not, however, obscure the fact that our teachers are also obliged to uphold academic responsibility.
