As for AOL's security and privacy claims, "I think those are red herrings, " Ferris said.

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In biology every solid clue emerges after a dozen red herrings that can waste years of effort.

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Sadly, Mr Sharon has a longtime habit of drawing red herrings across his ever-expanding demands over these territories.

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The pretrial release of these irrelevant red herrings is a desperate and pathetic attempt by the defense to pollute and sway the jury pool.

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You search in good faith, and sometimes there's red herrings, people have urban myths up, or they have websites where they're not that informed.

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Too often, purported genetic risk factors end up being red herrings like the infamous white van in the Washington, DC car sniper case a few years ago.

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Just avoid the red herrings piling up.

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Red Herrings, Pink Elephants and Gorillas!

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We should not be thrown any red-herrings that we need not press-on toward a future that is far less dependent on oil, and indeed a better planned use of energy in all its forms.

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