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a lie wearing the costume of truth, hoping nobody checks the seams
means A falsehood is a statement that isn't true, whether told to deceive or simply mistaken.
from From Old English 'fals' (false), itself borrowed from Latin 'falsus' (deceived, feigned) — past participle of 'fallere,' to deceive or trip up — plus the native suffix '-hood,' the same '-had' that gives us 'childhood' and 'neighborhood,' meaning a state or condition. So a falsehood is, quite literally, the condition of being false.
- travel speed
- Falsehoods spread six times faster than truth online
- legal weight
- Perjury can cost five years in U.S. prison
- brain cost
- Lying lights up more neural regions than honesty
- polygraph myth
- Lie detectors measure stress, not actual deception
- ancient roots
- Egyptians weighed hearts against truth's feather after death
for instance
piltdown man — fossil presented to british museum in 1912 as human ancestor; exposed as hoax in 1953, combining ape jaw with human skull