The robustness of the code seems to falsify the frozen-accident scenario in its pure form; however, the stereochemical model, the selection model, a combination thereof, or frozen accident followed by adaptation all could explain the observed properties of the code.
This was, of course, before the relativistic and quantum revolutions that seemed to falsify the prevailing theories of time, gravity, matter, and more.
A small number of attested alternation types relative to the possible number of alternation types would be consistent with the predictions of the sublanguage model, while a large number of attested alternation types relative to the possible number of alternation types would seem to falsify it.
The existence of the hallmark virus genes seems to effectively falsify both the cell degeneration and the escaped-genes concepts of viral evolution.
There will be examples in both sets of estimates which seem to be falsified by other data – which is a sign that neither set can be considered perfect.
In the light of this, a variety of new theories (some devised by psychologists rather than economists) have been proposed.Which all seems quite scientific: theories falsified, new ones offered up for falsification.
Reasserting the principle that freedom of speech does not include the freedom to falsify unchecked seems timely.
Due to our preliminary results, the serum values of S100 and NSE seem not to be falsified by insertion of a ventricular drainage.
Larkin's early poems, forced and contorted as they seem, did not falsify; wind and sea and sun and green growth spoke to him.
Thus astrology, for example, fails to be a scientific theory because it cannot be falsified: although astrology seems to make predictions, these statements about the future are so vague, so general and abstract, that they cannot be tied down to definite claims about observations to be made at a definite time and place.
