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(Conservative critics have complained that Moyers is pernicious because he is faux high culture.
This is pernicious nonsense, no matter how many people say it.
A third type of lie is the mendacium perniciosum , or "pernicious lie," a lie that is intended to do harm.
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.
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.