It was found that, as expected, phase distribution in the catalyst bed had a substantial impact on production rate; a faulty feed distribution system can cost approximately 20% in overall steady-state product conversion.
But there could still have been a lively discussion — without feeding a faulty assumption — if the question had been phrased differently.
"We are heroes in error," he told the London Daily Telegraph in February, when asked whether he had fed faulty intelligence to the United States and Britain to stoke the case for war.
In 2003, Risen learned of a tangled C.I.A. program, called Operation MERLIN, that was designed to feed faulty nuclear-weapons blueprints to Iran, in order to mislead that country's scientists.
In front of an audience of military and government officials, Humphreys fed faulty G.P.S. coördinates to a test drone aircraft from a third of a mile away, causing it to plummet.
The Pakistanis have countered that the American intelligence was often outdated, or that faulty information had been fed to the United States by Afghanistan's intelligence service.
In West Bengal, it focuses on feeding practices that lead to child undernutrition and encourages parents to change faulty eating habits.
An aide to Mr. Karzai said he believed that, as with the airstrikes on the convoy in Paktia, deliberately faulty intelligence might have been fed to American officials.
Officials in Orlando and Orange County said they believed they had solved their election problem: faulty perforated ballots, which tore and could not be fed through the counting machines but had to be counted by hand.
While each successive era's ideas about motherhood have had a political and economic dimension, the proliferation of parenting manuals and programmes such as Supernanny signals something else: a moral panic over parenting that feeds into the narrative of "broken Britain", in which "faulty" parenting is the cause of everything from obesity to educational failure and even divorce.
