Word: incorrectness
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...having an intellectually-engaged president is that occasionally he will emit ideas that are politically offensive or, in some cases, just plain wrong. After all, as Karl Popper taught us, providing refutable hypotheses is at the very core of scientific progress. I would hesitate to count the number of incorrect hypotheses that I come up with in the course of a year. Luckily, I have colleagues and students who point out my errors. If we are to have a scholar-president, we must treat his false hypotheses in the same way that we treat the false hypotheses of our colleagues...
Summers suggested that behavioral genetics could partially explain this phenomenon. He stressed that this hypothesis required further research, and he hoped it would turn out to be incorrect. But by that point Hopkins, who last year was inducted into the prestigious National Academy of Sciences, had left the conference room. She said she was concerned that it would be “rude” to get up midway through Summers’ speech, but “it was just too upsetting” for her to stay...
...Revising the Record As much as I am happy that Bertelsmann's CEO Gunter Thielen was included in TIME's list of the 25 most influential people in business today [Dec. 20], I am sorry to see that certain facts in the accompanying article were incorrect. TIME implied that I left Thielen with debts of $3.5 billion. At the end of my tenure as Bertelsmann's CEO, its debt was $334 million, the lowest of all big media corporations that I know of. Companies like Time Warner, Disney and Vivendi Universal are paying this as annual interest. TIME implied that...
...accuse Annan of nepotism and conflict of interest. No evidence of wrongdoing by him or his son exists, but the same cannot be said of the Bush Administration. It is hard to take seriously the criticism of the U.N. Security Council's actions regarding Iraq. Considering the comically incorrect material about Iraq's supposed weapons of mass destruction that was presented to the U.N. by Colin Powell, an apology seems more appropriate. The Bush Administration does not help U.S. credibility by stubbornly insisting there was a link between al-Qaeda and Saddam despite its inability to produce the slightest proof...
...Santa Margarita, California, U.S. Revising the Record As much as I am happy that Bertelsmann's CEO Gunter Thielen was included in TIME's list of the 25 most influential people in business today [Dec. 20], I am sorry to see that certain facts in the accompanying article were incorrect. TIME implies that I left Thielen with debts of $3.5 billion. At the end of my tenure as Bertelsmann's CEO, its debt was €334 million, the lowest debt of all big media corporations that I know of. Companies like Time Warner, Disney or Vivendi Universal are paying this...