false belief
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The study states that the false belief has led "to negative consequences, including misinformed risk‐taking by those encountering snakes, unwarranted fear among snakebite victims, and inappropriate care delivered by misinformed or patient/family‐pressured medical professionals."
From Science Daily ● Jul. 10, 2026
“I start to absorb this false belief that they put together, and I’m accepting it as a truth,” Perez said years later in a deposition about what happened to his mental state during that interrogation.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 1, 2024
Do you think a part of that false belief lives on in modern gynecology today?
From Salon ● Mar. 18, 2023
And in Russell’s case, the man bases his true belief about the time on the false belief that the clock he’s looking at is working.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 15, 2022
It is a false belief, a bad philosophy dimming the eyes of generations.
From Chimney-Pot Papers by Fritz August Gottfried Endell
