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

Resisting AI innovation is as wrongheaded as overselling its immediate impact and needlessly scaring American workers.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 21, 2026

The suggestion the provision applies "could not be more wrongheaded," he added.

From Salon • Mar. 4, 2024

There was also his disgust at recent fictionalized accounts of these horrors that he feels are wrongheaded to the importance of the subject.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 5, 2023

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