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A third type of lie is the mendacium perniciosum , or "pernicious lie," a lie that is intended to do harm.
It didn't reference Al Gore's "livability agenda" for the 2000 election or quote any politicians decrying the pernicious social effect of traffic.
To be effective, all HIV interventions should include an analysis of how stigma functions, how it enhances dominance and subordination in society, how it is that some win and others lose in the pernicious struggle for pre-eminence, and why it is that such a social scheme perversely flourishes in the first place [16].
That some actually took this to mean that people are born with a predisposition to acquire a particular language would be laughable if it were not so pernicious.
Some economists, however--notably Berkeley's Maurice Obstfeld and Barry Eichengreen--argue that the standard model is too mechanical in its representation of government policy, and that the more complex motives of actual governments make speculation a more uncertain and perhaps more pernicious affair.