This may have compromised the police inquiry, and had also, more damnably, given her family false hope that she might be alive.

NEWYORKER: Hack Work

Brokers would also "spoof" the market on behalf of UBS - creating a false illusion that there was more demand on one side of the market than really existed, by advertising bogus requests, in order to influence the interest rates offered by the banks.

BBC: UBS sign

The study, published online Monday in the journal BMJ Quality and Safety, underscores the trade-offs in the diagnostic process: More medical tests generally improve detection, but they can also increase costs, harm patients, and produce false positives.

WSJ: Adding Up Diagnosis Errors