No area is exempt, but the fields of advertising, politics and defence have been especially criticized in recent years by the campaigns for Plain English. In these domains, the extent to which people are prepared to use jargon to hide realities is a ready source of amusement, disbelief and horror. A lie is a lie, which can be only temporarily hidden by calling it an 'inoperative statement' or ' an instance of plausible deniability'. Nor can a nuclear plant explosion be suppressed so long behind such phrases as ‘energetic disassembly’, ‘abnormal evolution’ or ‘plant transient’.