The best information from the leading medical and health scientists and experts in the country was dead wrong.
The Senator was referring to the situation when there was an anthrax terrorist attack in 2001.
Sometimes we misinterpret, sometimes we misunderstand, sometimes we make mistakes.
The wrong way always seems the more reasonable.
False conclusions which have been reasoned out are infinitely worse than blind impulse.
To weigh and evaluate a vast grid of information, much of it meaningless, and to arrive at sensible, if erroneous, conclusions, is a skill not to be sneezed at.
Once a change of direction has begun, even though its the wrong one, it still tends to clothe itself as thoroughly in the appurtenances of rightness, as if it had been natural all along.
There are many answers, none of them right, but some of them most definitely wrong.