"It distorts the relationship between the lawyer and the client, it distorts the work that gets done, and it provides enormous incentives to slide into chronic deceptive behavior," said Lisa G. Lerman, a law professor at the Catholic University of America in Washington.
It has long reflected unhealthily close relations between bureaucrats and business, distorting the work of civil servants on the look out for a plum job, and burdening firms with the deadweight of ex-pen pushers serving as "senior advisers".
Like some other philosophers, the pragmatists saw themselves as providing a return to common sense and the facts of experience and, thus, as rejecting a flawed philosophical heritage which had distorted the work of earlier thinkers.
(Actually, Karl seems more aggrieved that the Perry ad distorts the work of Tim Russert more than he's concerned it distorts the policy positions of Mitt Romney).
But this argument distorts the works in an attempt to defend them.
"It's frustrating because it has been a clear attempt to distort the actual work that we do, and to redirect the focus on to something that they thought would get more traction, the fear of the red menace and the communist plot and reds under your bed and in your schools.
He writes of how collectors could so drastically (if only temporarily) distort the value of the work they collected; he writes of a Banksy-like stunt artist who plays mischievously off those collectors' fickle tastes.
While Woolf exhorts women writers not to allow anger to distort the integrity of their work, the essay itself bristles with anger.
He says that, in subsequent videos, he will explain the motivations of the Islamic State, and how Western media outlets — "the very organizations I used to work for" — distort the truth.
In addition to their attempt to distort the scientific record, these people work hard to fool the media and the general public into believing that they are something other than a fringe group.
