There are myriad examples of grotesque injustices, including the sentencing of innocent defendants to death, the deliberate falsification of evidence, the execution of profoundly retarded defendants, the routine misuse of so-called expert testimony and rampant racism.
Her call follows a series of damaging incidents involving the police including the corruption of peaceful protests, the killing of newspaper vendor Ian Tomlinson at the 2009 G20 protests, stealing the identities of dead children for undercover officers, mass use of false charges during the miners' strike and systemic falsification of evidence following the Hillsborough disaster.
There were multiple representations of the nature of scientific investigations, making any argument about the falsification of all this evidence much less credible.
The mark of a scientific theory, he held, was that it be open to the possibility of falsification by evidence; the mark of a good society was that it be open to change of government without bloodshed.
Hopefully you, the citizenry, will be sufficiently well-informed to understand the importance of evidence, logic, and falsification, and you will evaluate the data, and make moral and compassionate decisions on that basis.
The Joy of Science closes, then, with the plea: Hopefully you, the citizenry, will be sufficiently well-informed to understand the importance of evidence, logic, and falsification, and you will evaluate the data, and make moral and compassionate decisions on that basis.
Verizon repeated yesterday that regulators had found no evidence of falsification of reports and said that the rate increase would allow it to improve the quality of basic phone service.
According to the journal, "Never has this been truer than of the 1998 Lancet paper that implied a link between the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine and a 'new syndrome' of autism... Clear evidence of falsification of data should now close the door on this damaging vaccine scare".
At the other end of the spectrum, falsification is the limiting case of disconfirmation: a piece of evidence falsifies a hypothesis just in case it conclusively establishes that the hypothesis is false.
Concealment, falsification of records, huge deductions for personal expenses there was plenty of evidence to support the guilty verdict.
At yesterday's news conference, Dr. Barbara J. Masters, head of the department's Food Safety and Inspection Service, repeated the contention that the cow was a downer and said the inspector general found "no evidence of any falsification of records by U.S.D.A. employees".
