The magazine said that vicious, insulting or ignorant comments can pollute otherwise intelligent online discussions and undermine public understanding and appreciation of science itself.
Virginia-based attorney Chris Horner serves as a senior fellow at E&E Legal, formerly known as the American Tradition Institute, and is connected to a number of other organisations that have sought to undermine public understanding of climate science.
"The Heartland Institute has chosen to undermine public understanding of basic scientific facts and personally attack climate researchers rather than engage in a civil debate about climate change policy options," the letter said.
It is irresponsible to purposefully mislead students on well-supported scientific theories and undermine their understanding of the scientific method, the foundation upon which all branches of science heavily rely (Scott and Branch 2003).
My fear is that current national and state educational policies that stress reading and math test prep at the expense of everything else will not only undermine civic understanding, but leave us all "Down in Mississippi".
By making consumers feel good without actually doing anything meaningful, it discourages understanding, undermining the search for better detection, safer treatments, causes and cures for a disease that still afflicts 250,000 women annually (and speaking of figures, the number who die has remained unchanged — hovering around 40,000 — for more than a decade).
The policy of 'pick and mix' organics, which undermines informed understanding of organic principles".
"I'm more concerned about P.R. people marketing drugs of dubious efficacy, or undermining public understanding about global warming," Mr. Rampton said.
Denialism does its damage by driving a wedge between science and society, undermining public understanding of science with misinformation and confusing pseudo-debate.
