Do the following apply to research proposals on campus, or do they better describe "administrative" activities such as IRBs?

Webster's says:

Deceit \De*ceit"\, n.

1. An attempt or disposition to deceive or lead into error; any declaration, artifice, or practice, which misleads another, or causes him to believe what is false; a contrivance to entrap; deception; a wily device; fraud.

2. (Law) Any trick, collusion, contrivance, false representation, or underhand practice, used to defraud another.

Syn: Deception; fraud; imposition; duplicity; trickery; guile; falsifying; double-dealing; stratagem. See {Deception}.

Disingenuous\Dis`in*gen"u*ous\, a.

1. Not noble; unbecoming true honor or dignity; mean; unworthy; as, disingenuous conduct or schemes.

2. Not ingenuous; wanting in noble candor or frankness; not frank or open; uncandid; unworthily or meanly artful.

3. Playing dumb, forked tongue, butter wouldn't melt, ... (JM)

4. Surface meaning disconnected from deep structure ... (Chomsky)

A clean glove often hides a dirty hand. English proverb Who will not be deceived must have as many eyes as hairs on his head. German proverb He who digs a hole for another may fall in himself. Russian proverb You can fool some of the people all the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all the time. Abraham Lincoln You can fool too many of the people too much of the time. James Thurber Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another. Homer A Puritan's a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things. G. K. Chesterton If you have to keep reminding yourself of a thing, perhaps it isn't so. Christopher Morley It is with a pious fraud as with a bad action; it begets a calamitous necessity of going on. Thomas Paine Life is the art of being well deceived; and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted. William Hazlitt Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse. Adlai E. Stevenson We are never so easily deceived as when we imagine we are deceiving others. Francois de la Rochefoucauld What renders us so bitter against those who trick us is that they believe themselves to be more clever than we are. Francois de la Rochefoucauld When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself. Louis Nizer (Interesting sentiment, but anatomically it's three, unless pointing with thumb? Perhaps why Nizer not well known?) When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people. Mark Twain The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity. Andre Gide The same people who can deny others everything are famous for refusing themselves nothing. Leigh Hunt Truth lives on in the midst of deception. Johann von Schiller