this is a great time to bring up Bullshit as a topic of study in and of its self.  <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;press.princeton.edu&#x2F;titles&#x2F;7929.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;press.princeton.edu&#x2F;titles&#x2F;7929.html</a><p>We routinely say things that aren&#x27;t quite true -- sometimes with the best intentions or out of necessity.  The truth can be a very complicated thing.<p>What we are calling &quot;bullshit&quot; may go under more serious names (and serious discussions) if we look at specific cases - e.g. finance, medicine, game theory, biology, etc...  My back-of-the-envlope definition is that of an &quot;approximation to the truth&quot;.