Looking back, he claims that his dutiful exercises in taxonomy were misguided, writing that "naming things is always implicitly categorizing and therefore collecting them, attempting to own them".
Newsday critic Gene Seymour, on the other hand, stated that such reactions are misguided, writing that "the movie's just too darned silly to withstand any ideological theorizing".
"Everything about it seems slightly off, misguided," writes Prose, before she goes on to examine exactly what Guggenheim might have meant, what her relationship with her daughter might truly have been.
"Instead of acknowledging that there is a problem and genuinely seeking to address scientists' concerns, the project leaders seem to be of the opinion that the letter's 580 signatories [now over 600] are misguided," wrote Prof Richard Morris, an eminent neuroscientist from the University of Edinburgh, and five colleagues.
"If the aim of divestment campaigns is to reduce companies' profitability by directly reducing their share prices, then these campaigns are misguided," wrote William MacAskill, co-founder of the Center for Effective Altruism, in a 2015 New Yorker article on divestment's viability.
Proposals to reduce the number of students who do PhDs are misguided, writes Eve Marder, because they would exclude young scientists with qualities that do not show up in exam results and interviews.
Misguided regulations, written in anger, could imperil this.
"Blind trust in juries is not just misguided," Thomas writes, "it is not what juries want themselves.
"Treating atrocity prevention with a level of secrecy similar to that accorded to national intelligence reviews seems misguided," John Norris and Annie Malknecht wrote in a report on the board published by the liberal Center for American Progress.
On the other hand, the Chinese seem to approve of austerity and Germany's approach to the euro crisis, so perhaps they will see Hollande's attempt to slow down austerity as misguided," he wrote.
(Milanovic, for his part, has found that global income inequality may be decreasing, but he told me that he finds Oxfam's approach, in showing a rise in wealth inequality, to be sound. "The methodology is quite established and most of the critiques are misguided," he wrote in an e-mail).
