Unfortunately, it would have little effect on the deficit, and it could feed misperceptions that will make it even harder to deal with the problem.
OUCH: Over the weekend, Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Scott Gottlieb sought to "set the record straight" on vaccine-related misperceptions that are leading to decreasing vaccination rates.
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"We are aware of the anxieties and misperceptions that have taken root," said Cari M. Dominguez, chairwoman of the commission, which was deluged with letters opposing the rule from more than 50,000 AARP members.
Viet Dinh, a former Justice Department official who drafted the Patriot Act, said that Mr. Ashcroft's agenda would be "to correct the misperceptions that are out there and to disabuse the American public of the misinformation they've gotten".
She calls up the ghosts of Vietnam: "The failure to understand the complications of Iraqi political culture, with or without Hussein, threatens to spring the same trap of misperceptions that ensnared the United States in Vietnam," she writes.
Once, when I was talking to Tillman or, rather, listening to him talk, at length, about himself, and the misperceptions that keep springing up around him, he suddenly said, "Aw, fuck it, that's enough".
The Fed can stop a run on the banks, but it cannot control the speculative cycle — a cycle built on psychology and misperceptions that has been sweeping much of the world for the last 10 or 12 years.
And that really means spending time in our curriculum to understand the misperceptions that arise between the patient persona and the provider persona, so that we can uncover the roadblocks to honest conversation that get in the way of participatory health care decisions.
"There were a lot of misperceptions that Sci Fi was for men, that it was for young men and that it was for geeky young men," said Bonnie Hammer, the president of NBC Universal Cable Entertainment, which oversees Sci Fi. "We had to broaden the channel to change the misconceptions of the genre".
