Word: incorrection
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...today, possibly even more widespread than gonorrhea. This year up to half a million more Americans will develop the telltale genital blisters of herpes, adding to the 5 million to 14 million who already have the disease. When they seek medical help, they will often be given incorrect information or false hopes for cures. Most will suffer shame, guilt and even depression, and a few will become suicidal over what they feel is the "new leprosy...
Because Pravda is, in effect, the voice of the party, the paper does not have a government censor. The editors are responsible for blue-penciling incorrect thinking, but they rarely have to. Explains Arkadi Polishchuk, a New York-based émigré who sometimes writes for Pravda: "A Soviet journalist knows what will pass and what won't. He has an 'inner editor' within him. One step out of line and a journalist's career is washed...
Huchra and his colleagues concluded that astronomers came up with an incorrect value for the constant because they limited their observations to nearby clusters of galaxies--those less than 70 million light years away...
Many students enter the Psychology Department with what psychologists would call "incorrect expectancies." While most concentrators expect a more patient and therapy-oriented course of study, the department emphasizes the empirical, quantitative approach to Psych...
Guggenheimer, who took his post in February, said the incident is the only one he knows of in which Crimson Key guides gave out incorrect information...