Il est sans doute vrai que tous les romanciers mentent, car le mensonge après tout leur marchandise première. Leurs lecteurs (c'est-à-dire, vous et moi) consomment ces mensonges de manière boulimique, en redemandent. La plupart du temps, sont conscients déclarations qu'ils trouvent dans un roman n'ont aucune valeur vérité directe immédiate monde réel. Antoine Roquentin n'ira pas prison faute d'...

The well-known quotation “There are lies, damned lies and statistics” suggests that statistics doesn’t have the greatest of reputations. Why is this? Certainly, statistics can be used to mislead, but logically “lies, damned lies and statistics” reflects high levels of statistical misunderstanding rather than indicating that statistics are inherently ‘bad’. In Bad Science, Ben Goldacre highlight...

My considerations are typological in nature. A lie is a disingenuous assertion made to another person with the intent of deceiving other into believing both that true and liar believes it be true. This definition morally neutral. It requires further, moral judgment determine whether good or bad thing, whether, specified circumstances, right wrong. However, what if truth not only occasionally co...

This paper describes some of the more unusual phenomena associated with RF/microwave measurements that have been investigated by the author over the past twelve years. It has been found that, from some high profile publications, microwave measurements have been either performed in error or their results wrongly interpreted. Four categories have been identified and two examples from each are dis...