But the argument from selective refutation can be misleading when it causes us to fail to notice that the surviving hypothesis has its own defects.
Nevertheless, there was less opportunity for readers to be misled when they were learning about memory than when the topic was mental imagery.
At another level, the omission of fundamental components of the historical narrative can seriously mislead readers.
For one thing, it is misleading to measure leisure simply as time spent outside the labor market.
We are easily misled by the way a decision is framed.
This places a premium on the reliability of information, and maternal genes may benefit from suppressing misleading information transmitted between sibs.
Why distort and indeed mislead public education and discussion by confusing scientific fact and science fiction?
The rather portentous title of this book neatly describes its topics, except that the term ' postmodern ' is likely to mislead.