Elimination was defended by citing several hypotheses (e.g., excluded cases are similar to other MDD; exclusions risk missing suicidal cases; medication works with excluded cases), all of which were either empirically falsified or based on faulty arguments.
Since no colors were apparent for either LF or AM for CF #1, CF #2, CF #4, and CF #5, these samples were considered to be falsified products based on the absence of both active ingredients via the colorimetric assay.
In general, scientific advance is seen in a Popperian view (see e.g. ref. 353 357) as an iterative series of 'conjectures' and 'refutations' by which the search for scientific truth is 'narrowed' by finding what is not true (may be falsified) via predictions based on hypothetico-deductive reasoning and their anticipated and experimental outcomes.
It is obvious that decisions based on falsified data regarding treatments, health-care priorities, health policy and health-resource allocation may be seriously misguided [3, 8, 9].
The most important are the definitions of "substandard" and "falsified" medicines, which are based on the work of a consensus group of lawyers, health professionals, drug regulators, and diplomats.
The jury's conviction of Ms. Villacorta for falsifying business records was based on the phony refunds and rebates.
A new count of falsifying business records is based on the allegation that the officers left the station house to return to her apartment while they were supposed to be on a meal break.
The indicted teachers were charged with racketeering, making false statements, tampering with witnesses and, because many of them received bonus checks based on apparently falsified results, theft (not all teachers and administrators face all charges).Two debates have sprung up around this indictment, one largely Atlanta-centred and one national.
Mr. Haggerty, 42, did score a minor victory on Monday when Justice Ronald Zweibel dismissed three counts of falsifying business records, which were based on accusations that Mr. Haggerty created fake checks to give the impression that he had paid poll watchers.
It would certainly be premature to falsify the long-standing hypothesis based on this data only.
