false belief

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“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

This false belief is concerning for progress because it is reducing women's willingness to protest the real causes of gender inequality.

From Science Daily • May 28, 2024

“There’s some false belief that if the service doesn’t exist, the people won’t be there,” said Alison Eisinger, executive director of the Seattle King County Coalition on Homelessness.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 21, 2023

Do you think a part of that false belief lives on in modern gynecology today?

From Salon • Mar. 18, 2023

The greater pity is, that this false belief still persists to crush the hearts of many innocent sufferers.

From What and Where is God? A Human Answer to the Deep Religious Cry of the Modern Soul by Swain, Richard la Rue