Word: misleading
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...Robert Gallo, of the National Cancer Institute, really isolate the AIDS virus in 1984, as he claims? Or did he culture a virus found by French researchers and then mislead the scientific community? A National Institutes of Health panel ruled last year that there were no ethical problems. Now a Health and Human Services report disagrees. It says Gallo didn't steal the virus. But a single sentence in his 1984 paper implying that no one could yet grow the French virus was ruled to be deliberately false and thus scientific misconduct. Gallo calls the report "incompetent...
...falls into line with the director's narrow vision of the work. As a group they lack depth. The play begins with a scene between the father James Tyrone (Jack Aranson) and the mother Mary Cavan Tyrone (Patricia Conolly). The actors' forced voices and exaggerated facial expressions at first mislead the audience into thinking that they are watching a high-society comedy or drama instead of anything resembling O'Neill...
...driving force behind U.S. foreign policy during the 1970s, Henry A. Kissinger '50 mislead the American public and his superiors in government, the author of his best-selling biography said last night...
...TIMING COULD NOT HAVE BEEN WORSE FOR THE Bush campaign. The Senate Intelligence Committee is burrowing into the possibility that the CIA and the Justice Department collaborated to mislead prosecutors looking into the Banca Nazionale del Lavoro's illicit loans to Iraq. Blaming an "honest mistake," CIA officials have conceded responsibility for a Sept. 17 letter that failed to advise prosecutors and a federal judge that the agency possessed a cache of classified cables relating to the case. Late last week, according to the New York Times and the Washington Post, CIA officials testified in closed hearings that a senior...
...this logical blind alley. All lies, regardless of their relationship to the truth, have one thing in common. "We must single out," writes Sissela Bok in Lying, "from the countless ways in which we blunder misinformed through life, that which is done with the intention to mislead." Lies may confuse everyone who hears them, as they are meant to, but liars know exactly what they are doing while they are doing it. In Telling Lies, Paul Ekman, a professor of psychology at the University of California medical school in San Francisco, provides a slightly more elaborate definition: "One person intends...