misrepresentation

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Misrepresentation, by its nature, works against reader trust.

From Washington Post • Jul. 3, 2016

Misrepresentation took on a more literal form in late summer, when The New Yorker magazine’s Shouts & Murmurs blog posted a humor piece, “Sonny Rollins: In His Own Words.”

From New York Times • Dec. 30, 2014

The angle taken is close to that taken by Raymond Tallis in his book ‘Aping Mankind: Neuromania, Darwinitis and the Misrepresentation of Humanity’.

From Scientific American • Apr. 2, 2012

"We don't need the glamour of neuroscience to tell us that Smith's observations about human nature are correct," argues Raymond Tallis, the author of Aping Mankind: Neuromania, Darwinitis and the Misrepresentation of Humanity.

From The Guardian • Aug. 20, 2011

Misrepresentation of land conditions and actual money frauds have made them suspicious of any land dealer, so that the best land companies experience, in the immigrants' suspicion, a handicap in the development of their business.

From A Stake in the Land by Speek, Peter A. (Peter Alexander)