Word: falsehood
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...gate and shouting democratic slogans while blasting the film soundtrack to The Mission), he decides that he will return with the intent of going to prison. He shrugs off conventional activism. "The powerfully written reports by NGOS and the sensationalist press?they all smack of hypocrisy and falsehood...
...It’s a total falsehood and she knows it,” Demakis said. “I have a district that has a lot of new territory in it. How is that in my favor? I lost three of my four strongest precincts...
Your story on infertility treatments [SCIENCE, March 18] stated that "women who get reproductive assistance often have something wrong with their reproductive system in the first place." This perpetuates the falsehood that female reproductive factors are the primary cause of infertility. Specialists have determined that women have factors that contribute to infertility in 40% of cases but that 40% of the time it is men. And in 10% of cases both partners have contributing factors. [The remaining 10% is linked to other causes, generally described as unexplained.] As someone who, owing to infertility, has made the painful choice to undertake...
...When Rover lies, I try to explain gently what is wrong with falsehood. The Boy who cried Wolf is invoked. It's difficult to know how to respond to grown women lying. When I asked my colleagues about it they shook their heads at me sadly: ?A publicist lied? One for the ages!" But it wasn't the lying that got me. I lie. Recent news reports suggest much better writers than me have lied. Oh yeah, and presidents lie. It was the sheer stupidity of the lie. It was worse than my son saying he has already brushed...
Allowing a military organization to disseminate American propaganda will undermine the already tenuous trustworthiness of the Pentagon, both at home and around the world. There is a fine line between narrow military necessity—where deception may be justified—and more general propaganda, where falsehood reinforces negative American stereotypes. This line is already blurry, and the Pentagon’s involvement will make it even more difficult to differentiate between...