Falsify
41Falsified — Falsify Fal si*fy, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Falsified}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Falsifying}.] [L. falsus false + ly: cf. F. falsifier. See {False}, a.] 1. To make false; to represent falsely. [1913 Webster] The Irish bards use to forge and falsify… …
42Falsifying — Falsify Fal si*fy, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Falsified}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Falsifying}.] [L. falsus false + ly: cf. F. falsifier. See {False}, a.] 1. To make false; to represent falsely. [1913 Webster] The Irish bards use to forge and falsify… …
43falsification — falsify fal‧si‧fy [ˈfɔːlsfaɪ ǁ ˈfɒːl ] verb falsified PTandPP [transitive] LAW ACCOUNTING to change figures, records etc so that they contain false information: • The financial director was charged with falsifying the company s …
44Dolly — falsify evidence against: The police dollied Joe …
45salt receipts — falsify receipts, forge receipts …
46cook the books (to) — Falsify records. ► “In the same way a company can use ‘CREATIVE ACCOUNTING’ to make its financials look the way it wants them to, the federal government can cook its books, too.” (Secured Lender, May/June 1995, p. 44) …
47falsifiable — falsify ► VERB (falsifies, falsified) 1) alter (information or evidence) so as to mislead. 2) prove (a statement or theory) to be false. DERIVATIVES falsifiable adjective falsification noun …
48falsification — falsify ► VERB (falsifies, falsified) 1) alter (information or evidence) so as to mislead. 2) prove (a statement or theory) to be false. DERIVATIVES falsifiable adjective falsification noun …
49Objections to evolution — Part of a series on Evolutionary Biology …
50Confirmation bias — (also called confirmatory bias or myside bias) is a tendency for people to favor information that confirms their preconceptions or hypotheses regardless of whether the information is true.[Note 1][1] As a result, people gather evidence and recall …
