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But it is quite another thing when it is foisted on an unsuspecting public as fact, when, indeed, it is either pure speculation or a writer's interpretation of the best way to make data fit into the procrustean bed of his theory.
We regret having to use this procrustean approach, but because of the difficulty of verifying genotypes and because numerous loci introduce improbable double-recombinant haplotypes, we have used exclusive criteria to ensure high-quality maps.
Strict chronological presentation of dated citations is at best a lexicographic Procrustean bed, at worst very misleading.
The source of the problem lies in the fact that there is no law forbidding ordinary mortals to bandy about terms like theory of relativity which only a few people in the world truly understand: to be sure, it is impossible to conceive of writing a definition for it that would fit into a dictionary's procrustean requirements.