The disappointing scare campaign by Environmental Working Group promotes false fears about cleaning products, which play an essential role in our daily lives.

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According to the Innocence Project, a legal advocacy group, about 75% of false convictions that are later overturned are based on faulty eyewitness testimony.

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News Group Newspapers apologised for what it said were "false allegations".

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But Peter Brewer, group secretary of Peterborough NFU, has criticised the measure as false economy.

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Still, starting this week the group's "Nanny Moderation Team" warns posters that false advertising is a misdemeanor punishable by up to a year in jail.

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"It's a false premise, " says retail expert Britt Beemer of America's Research Group on the notion of Wal-Mart's same-store sales as a valid economic measurement.

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The same year the False Claims Act was amended, Phillips set up Taxpayers Against Fraud, a nonprofit group out to aid whistleblowers.

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The group argues that BofA has to buy back soured mortgages bonds because they were sold with false representations about their quality.

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Mark Monitor's Fred Felman says that his group targets more than 500 sites in a typical week and has never had a "false positive, "--in other words, has never mistaken a legitimate site for a phisher.

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In the early 1990s, a group of Wisconsin activists sued the FDA, arguing that its policy allowed products to be labeled in a false and misleading manner.

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