Cousteau indirectly challenged a claim by Joel Manby, president and CEO of SeaWorld, that no orca or dolphin born in captivity has survived release into the wild.
Two hotels and a company called KwikChex, which specialises in online reputation management, challenged a claim on the TripAdvisor site that it "offers trusted advice from real travellers" and featured "honest travel reviews and opinions".
Unverified video from activists has challenged a claim by John Yates, the former assistant commission of the Metropolitan police who is advising Bahraini authorities, that police abuse is not taking place in off site locations.
PHILADELPHIA — The Philadelphia district attorney's office on Tuesday challenged a claim by lawyers for a convicted Roman Catholic monsignor that prosecutors had persuaded another priest, now defrocked, to falsely admit to sexually abusing a 10-year-old boy in order to obtain the conviction.
Mandy Rice-Davies has challenged a claim by the government that it is not possible to locate documents relating to the case of Stephen Ward, one of the other key figures in the Profumo affair, adding her voice to claims that Ward was made a scapegoat in the affair that almost toppled the government in 1963.
Questions have also been raised about Williams's coverage of Hurricane Katrina in 2005, with one health official challenging a claim he contracted dysentery while reporting on the aftermath.
Deutsche Bank has vowed to challenge a $14bn claim by the US Department of Justice to settle an investigation into its selling of mortgage-backed securities.
Although the Novartis result does not challenge a second claimed benefit of GDF11, to the brain, "we're designing a series of experiments to convince ourselves that what we see in the brain is real," says Rubin, who led that study.
Now the I.R.S. is acknowledging that in cases involving abuse, the requesting spouse was very likely not in a position to challenge an erroneous claim on a tax form or refuse to sign the return.
But she noted that the law requires that withheld documents be "properly classified," and the A.C.L.U. could challenge such a claim.
