On Monday 11 September 2006 15:22, Ed Leafe wrote:
> On Sep 11, 2006, at 2:38 PM, john harvey wrote:
> > To lie means to knowingly make a false statement. A statement that
> > is made,
> > based on faulty information, is not necessarily a lie.
>
>       To know that there is conflicting information and to knowingly
> disregard information that fails to advance the result you want is
> most certainly a lie.

Hi Ed!

No. You have to say the words for it to be a lie. Think of the 60s cigarette 
commercials citing all their flawed research. Intellectual dishonesty, 
perhaps, but an outright lie, no.

Regards,

Pete


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