wrongheaded

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Lee also has made some wrongheaded and bold calls on crypto, such as a forecast that bitcoin could “easily get to $200,000” by the end of 2025, and top $1 million in a few years.

From MarketWatch • May 7, 2026

Ultimately, “Feed the People!” is a worthwhile corrective to a great deal of wrongheaded popular dogma about food.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026

So I had very definite feelings about it, and I thought it was wrongheaded and really somewhat shameful of the academy to do that.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 19, 2026

But there is much that is historically wrongheaded, strategically unwise, and logically vague or self-contradictory in this document.

From Slate • Dec. 8, 2025

In fact, the move to teach calculus in some high schools seems to me wrongheaded if it leads to the exclusion of the above topics in finite mathematics.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos