The problem with college football rankings is not the remote, impersonal element of computers but rather the faulty human component.
The same formula should be applied to Mr. Obama's diplomatic strategy as he seeks to strike up new relationships with countries with faulty human rights records.
Viruses, typically ones called adenoviruses, retroviruses or herpes simplex viruses are modified to carry the corrected gene of a faulty human one.
In a second series of experiments, the scientists inserted faulty human mitochondria into mouse eggs and then tried to correct the mutations.
In a perfect world, no child would ever be relinquished, abandoned, or orphaned, but parents are simply frail and faulty human beings, and sometimes even die.
Last year, scientists in China became the first to genetically modify human embryos when they tried - and failed - to mend a faulty gene in human embryos.
Faulty construction and human error were blamed for a crash last year that killed 40 people.
The researchers, led by Eric Olson at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Centre, said that instead of correcting faulty genes in human embryos, future procedures might achieve the same effects by correcting genes in muscle cells soon after birth.
Analysts say a combination of faulty technology and human error has caused two major oil spills the last 14 months, the worst of which dumped 325,000 gallons of oil in Rio de Janeiro's Guanabara Bay in January 2000, two months before the Carnival holidays filled the city with international tourists.
They were divided (and continue to be divided) into two groups: those who believed that Humean worries about causation are important and that, in consequence, a prior analysis of causation is needed, and those who think that Hume and his successors adopted a faulty picture of human knowledge, failing to recognize that people are capable of detecting causal relations perceptually.
