The phrase "a false path" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a course of action or decision that is misleading or incorrect.
Example: "After reviewing the evidence, it became clear that pursuing a false path would only lead to further complications."
Alternatives: "a misguided route" or "an incorrect direction".
Trapped along a false path of his own rather unintelligent design, Behe has left himself no escape.
Such abuse, he said, marked a "false path" for a medium that, "as ideally used," should be "a frame through which the audience looks into reality".
"So you've got the law enforcement community totally engaged in a variety of investigations," he said, "some of which, unfortunately, lead them down a false path".
Sadly, though, the makers of portable computing devices and wireless communications systems have led us down a false path by failing to make security a top priority.
The fraudulent Wizard is a proxy for their profiteering eastern banker nemeses, while Dorothy is the American public, blindly following a false path to wealth and riches (Emerald City) and the Tin Man embodying impoverished industrial workers.
Often, enterprise leaders have been guided by an interesting but incomplete question: "Who should we partner with?" While helpful, this question also sends BoP entrepreneurs and business leaders down a false path.
From the start of the movie, Don is enjoying his celebrity a little too much, arguing on behalf of his mission a little too pharisaically, leading congregants down the false path of rational proof of a faith that, however, should both resist and surpass reason.
Most of the identified pathways were directed through 1-pyrroline-5-carboxylate dehydrogenase reaction (1.5.1.12) in the reverse direction, which forms a false shortcut path between Oga and Arg.
Yambo, to the right here, isn't there that false path that leads to the ravine?
This refugee situation that is developing, I thought it would be a bit apocryphal, I wanted to make sure I wasn't being led down some false path -- but I met with these families and it is real.
