false knowledge
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Confronted by false knowledge, such as that vaccines cause autism, they aren’t equipped to evaluate the claim and are easily led astray.
From Slate ● Jul. 17, 2015
Why did the South of our youth imbue us with such false knowledge?
From Salon ● Jul. 15, 2015
Instead, he sees Santa-related lore as exactly the sort of false knowledge that's typically transmitted to kids from people they trust most: parents and teachers.
From Slate ● Dec. 24, 2014
Even when the stories were accompanied by realistic images, if the language was anthropomorphic, the kids transferred that false knowledge to real animals.
From Scientific American ● Mar. 27, 2014
The manifold difference is the distinction of gods, men, animals, and inanimate things: compare the saying of Saunaka:'this fourfold distinction is founded on false knowledge.'
From The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Ramanuja — Sacred Books of the East, Volume 48 by George Thibaut
