And if it's negative, you may be falsely reassured.

If an error occurs on the third of three annual tests, a woman may be falsely reassured that she need not get another test for three years.

"Physicians and parents may be falsely reassured that their child is not using a particular drug when the child never underwent proper testing for it," the study said.

Women who receive a 3D ultrasound may be falsely reassured that "everything is okay" and may discontinue prenatal care or taking prenatal vitamins.

However, the Germans were initially falsely reassured by Belgian deception measures.

Too many women with worrisome lumps are falsely reassured by doctors when their mammograms are negative.

Now the White House feels they've been falsely reassured by Rumsfeld.

Those messages may have falsely reassured many women that the supplements are going to protect them, Dr. Finkelstein said.

Ford engineers and journalists were falsely reassured in 1999 when they checked the federal complaint database and found it virtually empty - partly because lawyers had not filed complaints.

Whoever might be lying in wait in the galaxy would be deceived by these manoeuvres and be falsely reassured.