Word: misleads
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...forced some of the agents already arrested and imprisoned to take part in various schemes to mislead the CIA. For example, one source arrested by the KGB was made to contact a person in the U.S. in an effort to convince the FBI that his life was normal and he was having no problems. In addition, Soviet officials, prodded by the KGB, would deftly leak information to CIA officers suggesting that agents had been lost because they had made mistakes...
...psychiatrist at Johns Hopkins Medical School. "By not making an attempt to find additional confirmation for what the patient is telling you, you are ultimately saying that you believe the patient simply because the patient's feelings are so intense," he says. And yet, he adds, "feelings can mislead...
...mentors often said, "You can't unring a bell." He was right. This bell has been rung--with mortifying effect. Well, I wish to say for the record--and for what it may be worth--I have not lied to, defrauded, or mislead anyone, or otherwise committed the slightest breach of law or ethics with respect to this situation. Had The Crimson shown more courtesy, factual discipline, and professional restraint, the truth might have had a better chance to emerge. As it is, I will simply have to hope that when the entire story can be appropriately told, The Crimson...
Havel said that because scientific observation could not be done objectively, science can only mislead in its attempts to explain the definitive nature of the universe...
...example of Murray's willful attempt to mislead readers will suffice. Much of his data about a racial hierarchy of intelligence is taken from the work of Richard Lynn, who is described as a "leading scholar of racial and ethnic differences." In fact, Lynn is a white supremacist who has advocated the extermination of 'inferior' people and claimed that only whites and Asians have made major contributions to civilization...