By 1968 Malthus and his wrong ideas had been dead long enough to make a comeback.
If the explanation is correct, Allmon said, it's a sobering reminder of how people can get wrong ideas about science.
They don't have all the wrong ideas.
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But the benefits of these changes will be delayed and the agony of the crisis prolonged because of our wrong- headed ideas about the benefits of manipulating currencies.
Nor should we discount Gates just because some of his ideas are wrong-headed.
He'll have specific ideas on what's going wrong and what's needed to put it right, but coaching is knowing how to take a session - and Alan doesn't have that yet because he's never done it before.
It was one of those wonderful ideas that turned out to be horribly wrong: Since agriculture and drugmaking both relied on increasingly cutting-edge biotechnology, they would somehow fit together in the same companies.
There is nothing inherently wrong with such disagreements: Indeed, a competition of ideas is healthy for the republic.
That, he says, is where Suharto, who is often considered to have derived his own ideas of power from Javanese culture, went wrong.
"When emotions become the dominant force and the quality of the ideas are taking a backseat, then feedback is given the wrong way, " he says.
There is no one right or wrong way to go about this, so we should experiment with as many ideas as we can.
As he has taken matters at a general and low level of abstraction and he has only taken ideas and facts without any of the architecture, he has done nothing wrong.
The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is commonly understood.
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But apart from this contemporary mood, the ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is commonly understood.
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