Well it seems to me that it has a fairly timeless quality of thoroughgoing untruth. ;-) That, since there are so many contradictions out there.
Results from imperfections in understanding: too narrow a definition, too wide a definition, lack of perception of sufficient detail, forgetting what time it is, incorrect deduction, incorrect implication, invalid premise, exogenous factors. Get more data, refine the techniques, work up a better scientific model.