One of those reports proved erroneous, leaving the other also open to question.
For New Yorkers, the snow in January was something of a near-miss – US National Weather Service warnings of a "potentially historic blizzard" proved erroneous.
People can almost actively cling to high numbers of dead or hurt despite the fact that those numbers have been proven erroneous.
There was also evidence that the northern Hayward segment may have ruptured in 1836 but that has since been proved erroneous, he said.
They say that during that campaign to oust Iraqi forces from Kuwait, they were manipulated by official versions that later proved erroneous.
Mr. Karzai has frequently asked the United States military to take greater care with bombing raids on civilian areas and with they intelligence it receives, which has often proved erroneous.
In response, Mr. Fox of HarperCollins said in his letter to the lawyer that the description of the inside trading activities was "based on a reliable source," although upon investigation the accusations proved "erroneous".
He examined the messier operations of the nineteen-nineties, beginning with the debacle in Somalia, and concluded, "What is certain about the future is that even the best efforts to predict the conditions of future war will prove erroneous.
A similar avenue of inquiry into the deep past, the field of ancient DNA, was at first discredited after claims of retrieving dinosaur DNA proved erroneous, but with improved methods has produced spectacular results like the reconstitution of the Neanderthal genome.
