Though theories cannot in Popper's view be supported, they can be corroborated: a better corroborated theory is one that has been subjected to more and more rigorous tests without having been falsified.
This limits the capacity to combine corroborated evidence for species hypotheses from DNA barcoding with corroboration derived from evidence from other data sources.
Instead of finding a needle in the haystack, they are making more hay.Still, as analytical techniques become more widespread, business decisions will increasingly be made, or at least corroborated, on the basis of computer algorithms rather than individual hunches.
There have been widely corroborated accounts that in December 2008, the Thai navy towed into to deep waters a convoy of un-seaworthy boats carrying hundreds of ethnic Rohingya who had been fleeing Myanmar and Bangladesh.
All of these, he said, had been identified with the use of solid intelligence, corroborated by multiple sources.
The incident (corroborated by witnesses) prompted a harsh rebuke from the United Nations refugee agency; Turkey denies any wrongdoing.Police in Istanbul have been accused of detaining and beating illegal migrants, especially those with black skins.
Through the Treaty of Mutual Cooperation and Security concluded between Japan and the United States in 1960, reaffirmed in 1970, and further corroborated and slightly revised in the late 1990s the United States operates military bases in Japan, primarily in Okinawa.
Falsifiable and corroborated theories are thus to be preferred, though, as the impossibility of the second problem of induction makes evident, these are not to be confused with support by evidence.
"The sort of explanation one is looking for when one is puzzled by an aesthetic impression is not a causal explanation, not one corroborated by experience or by statistics as to how people react….
