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
It is more ignorant to have adopted false knowledge than to be uninformed.
From Mariquita A Novel by Ayscough, John