Sebald has his own scruples about the "morally questionable process of falsification.
The mis-naming of the atom reflected an unscientific view of one of the most basic of scientific questions: "What is stuff made of?" There are limits to what the process of observation, experimentation, prediction and falsification can tell us.
This falsification provoked the Sheffield Cutlers Company in 1911 to establish through the British courts that the term Sheffield plate could be applied only to articles made by the process of fusion now an internationally accepted definition.
They might then finally acknowledge the falsification of biblical history in Renaissance artworks, which has contributed to the historic divide between Christians and Jews, a divide that is only now in the process of reconciliation and healing.
By striving to formulate sets of hypotheses in each step of the process, verification and falsification of hypothesised conditions for effectiveness can occur swiftly and accelerate evidence-accumulation (cf. de Bruin & Johnston, 2012; Platt, 1964).
Our explicit process of iterative falsification contrasts to most prior work in executable biology, including [ 21, 33], which describe the completed models and predictions, but do not list the attributes targeted for reproduction or the order in which they were achieved.
These threats should be addressed using recognised approaches, including appropriate choice of comparators, detailed understanding of the change processes at work, careful specification of research questions, and the use of falsification tests and other methods for strengthening causal attribution.
"Courting Disaster" downplays the C.I.A.'s brutality under the Bush Administration to the point of falsification.
That is how the past turns into living memory, even at the price of falsification.
Some have detected in Bacon a forerunner of Karl Popper in respect of the method of falsification.
