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	Falsification (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Falsification in the sense of forgery should not be confused with Karl Popper's idea of Falsifiability in Philosophy of science.
		Falsification is the act of producing something that lacks authenticity and passing it off to other people as authentic.
		Falsification can be a profitable activity, but most jurisdictions consider it a crime called forgery.
	www.wikiverse.org /falsification (261 words)

	Falsifiability - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Naïve falsification does not enable scientists to present a definitive falsification of a universal statements.
		Sophisticated Methodological Falsification, on the other hand, is a prescription of a way in which scientists ought to behave as a matter of choice.
		A theory that is not open to falsification requires faith that it is not, in fact, false.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Falsifiability (4518 words)

	Falsification (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Falsification in the sense of forgery not be confused with Karl Popper 's idea of Falsifiability in Philosophy of science.
		Falsification is the act of producing something lacks authenticity and passing it off to other as authentic.
		Falsification can be a profitable activity but jurisdictions consider it a crime called forgery.
	www.freeglossary.com /Falsification (409 words)

	What Pseudoscience Tells us About Science
		Falsification was cited by Karl Popper as the defining characteristic of science.
		They have argued that it is impossible to falsify evolution and that it is therefore a philosophy or theology on a par with their own beliefs rather than a scientific concept.
		But the specific details of what constitutes replication and falsification vary so much from case to case that it is probably better to abandon the quest for a Scientific Method and think instead somewhat the way social scientists do, of a constellation of attributes that are shared by valid scientific theories.
	www.uwgb.edu /dutchs/pseudosc/badmodl.htm (3285 words)

	Falsification - EvoWiki (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Falsification is a criterion which was explicitly stated by Sir Karl Popper as a way of distinguishing science from pseudoscience.
		He had also been made uncomfortable by Marxism and Freudianism and how their advocates always seemed to have an answer for everything, even clear falsifications; thus he decided that a proper scientific theory ought to be "falsifiable", meaning that it ought to be possible for some observation to be contrary to it.
		The concept of falsification is closly related to the usefulness of a theory.
	wiki.cotch.net /index.php/Falsification (974 words)

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		Falsification before a court, legislative committee, administrative agency, or other official proceeding, as defined in §710-1000(12), is deemed more culpable and more socially dangerous than similar falsity in a report, license application, or like matter, especially when these types of statements are often prepared by a lawyer.[3]
		However, the falsification must be made with intent to mislead a public servant in the performance of the public servant's official duty.
		Trivial falsifications which (1) do not impair the examination process of an official proceeding, and (2) are not intended to mislead the public servant, do not warrant the misdemeanor sanction.
	www.capitol.hawaii.gov /hrscurrent/vol14_ch0701-0853/hrs0710/hrs_0710-1063.htm (1772 words)

	Falsification (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Falsification is shown to be at first the friend, and then the nemesis of the philosopher because the philosopher, or physicist, or any scientist, will abstract the world into his own language, e.g.
		Falsification is closely linked to error in that whichever errors we commit, if they help us to survive, become truths to us, and so the concept bends back and rests upon itself.
		PT 50: We start with falsification by the explantion that we live by means of illusion.
	www.wpunj.edu /wpcpages/sch-hmss/philosophy/COURSES/NIETNET/Falsify.htm (1960 words)

	The Quack-Files: Karl Popper's Falsification Principle
		Moreover, by making their interpretations and prophesies sufficiently vague they were able to explain away anything that might have been a refutation of the theory had the theory and the prophesies been more precise.
		Falsification can get a grip where positive proof is ever beyond us; the demarcation between science and non-science lies in the manner in which scientific theories make testable predictions and are given up when they fail their tests.
		However many confirming instances there are for a theory, it only takes one counter observation to falsify it: only one fl swan is needed to repudiate the theory that all swans are white.
	www.geocities.com /healthbase/falsification.html (3120 words)

	McCluskey, E. S. --- Paradigm and Falsification: Tools in a Search for Truth
		The idea of falsification is that one should not accept a new finding uncritically, but should do one's best to devise experiments to discredit (falsify) it; that which survives the hardest tests is taken as the closest to truth.
		The falsification concept is useful in assuring rigor in research — an attempt to falsify a conclusion is a real test of it.
		In a time of crisis, new experiments which we interpret as falsifications are often explained away by questioning adequate mastery of the system, or the reliability or objectivity of the scientist; or by ad hoc auxiliary hypotheses.
	www.grisda.org /origins/22008.htm (7558 words)

	Falsification of Records (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		NOTE: Falsification of documents and records by a student who is not functioning in a UAB employee capacity is considered nonacademic misconduct and is handled in accordance with regulations covering nonacademic misconduct.
		As a health-care, research, and educational institution, the University of Alabama at Birmingham is acutely interested in issues relating to the integrity of its employees.
		Falsification of UAB records or documents is prohibited.
	main.uab.edu /show.asp?durki=46348 (269 words)

	Falsificationism
		Falsification thus demarcates between scientific and non-scientific theories and helps account for the development of scientific theories.
		Although falsification was supposed to avoid this difficulty by proceeding deductively instead of inductively, in order to call a theory disproved we have to rely on an experiment proving another theory — the negation of the theory under consideration — which is precisely what we agreed could not be done.
		The problem with sophisticated falsification, however, arises from the fact that it is always a series of theories that are consequently referred to as scientific or non-scientific and never a single theory on its own.
	www.galilean-library.org /falsificationism.html (2193 words)

	Experience, Dialectic, and God
		His general response, I believe, consists in his view of falsification as the crucial element in the method and argument of metaphysics.
		In the case of metaphysics, at least, Hartshorne’s reliance and insistence on falsification appears to be a consequence of his view that the truth of metaphysical statements is a function of their meaning: "Metaphysical statements are not opposed to anything except wrong ways of talking.
		And the falsification of metaphysical statements must take the form, not of exhibiting "factual mistakes," but of demonstrating "confusion, inconsistency, or lack of definite meaning," i.e., in showing that they are "wrong ways of talking."
	www.religion-online.org /showarticle.asp?title=2502 (5836 words)

	Lifting the Veil: Falsification of Records
		Sadly, falsification of visitation records, case histories, and even evidence would appear to be more the rule than the exception among many child protective services caseworkers.
		Falsifications such as these represent only the more overt practice of the art of deception, and cases such as these indicate fundamental problems in the child welfare system.
		When caseworkers inflate their caseloads to increase or maintain government funding, or to justify inadequate response to crisis situations; when investigators falsify visitation records; when caseworkers falsify records to justify wrongful removals; and when supervisors ignore or encourage their deception, it is real children who suffer.
	www.liftingtheveil.org /falsification.htm (3450 words)

	Theology & Falsification: A Golden Jubilee Celebration
		My short paper entitled 'Theology and Falsification', which is reprinted below, has some claim to have been the most widely read philosophical publication of the second half of the twentieth century.
		The most radical of all the responses to 'Theology and Falsification' was the first, that of R.M. Hare.
		Hare suggested that religious utterances should be interpreted not as makings of statements but as expressions of what he called a blik -- something like a general approach or a general attitude.
	www.infidels.org /library/modern/antony_flew/theologyandfalsification.html (1374 words)

	Benziger Thinking Styles Assessment (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		This book, a monograph on Jung's Falsification of Type, is stimulating and thought-provoking, a milestone for Jungians that may ultimately become a touchstone for the broader community of psychologists.
		Additionally, and perhaps equally important, it clarifies the physiological link between health and the use of one's natural lead function, and thereby the underlying explanation for why an individual must be overcenter, leading predominantly with his natural dominant function to free himself from neuroses driven by the denial of his natural gifts and abilities.
		Additionally, Falsification of Type provides the reader who is yet unfamiliar with the BTSA assessment, insights into its value in guiding persons whose life-history is dominated by years, even decades, of Falsification, to identify and embrace their natural lead.
	www.benziger.org /content/view/61 (305 words)

	CSI Whales Alive! Vol. VI No. 4 On the Soviet Whaling Falsification
		This falsification partly explained the lack of recovery of all large whales populations in spite of decades of protection.
		The total falsification by number (over-reported + unreported) is 116,538 animals, or 82.2% of the total officially reported harvest.
		The scale of the Soviet Antarctic whaling data falsification is so great that it is necessary to recalculate practically all models for whale population studies, not only for the Antarctic, but also for the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific populations of all whale species.
	www.csiwhalesalive.org /csi97403.html (1335 words)

	Professional Ethics Report
		Although falsification of credentials is not unique to the scientific community, ORI and NSF hold that when researchers lie about their credentials, such conduct constitutes scientific misconduct.
		ORI holds the falsification of scientific credentials in grant applications as falsification in proposing research and falsification of credentials in a publication as falsification in reporting research.
		Institutions have investigated allegations of falsification of credentials of a scientist as academic/employee misconduct, not scientific misconduct.
	www.aaas.org /spp/sfrl/per/per7.htm (5117 words)

	13-2704 - Unsworn falsification; classification (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Making any statement which he believes to be false in regard to a material issue to a public servant in connection with any official proceeding as defined in section 13-2801.
		B. Unsworn falsification pursuant to paragraph 1, subsection A, is a class 2 misdemeanor.
		Unsworn falsification pursuant to subsection A, paragraph 2 is a class 6 felony.
	www.azleg.state.az.us /ars/13/02704.htm (95 words)

	Employment Application Falsification
		Failure to list any conviction is considered falsification and will result in disqualification for employment or access to TDCJ facilities for one year.
		Failure to accurately report other important information on these forms is also considered falsification and may result in disqualification for employment or access to TDCJ facilities for one year.
		However, falsification of the application will always disqualify you, regardless of how well qualified you are otherwise.
	www.tdcj.state.tx.us /vacancy/hr-home/falsify.htm (505 words)

	Climate Audit » “Full, True and Plain Disclosure” and Falsification (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The definition of “falsification” is broader than one might think and covers omissions as well as overt invention of data (which is covered under “fabrication”).
		Falsification is manipulating research materials, equipment, or processes, or changing or omitting data or results such that the research is not accurately represented in the research record [my bold]
		It seems to me that a scientist could easily interpret a prohibition against falsification as being limited to the prohibition of positive acts (which is really dealt with under “fabrication”) and that he might not realize that selective omissions were a form of falsification.
	www.climateaudit.org /index.php?p=242 (9111 words)

	Falsification of Hypotheses
		The philosopher Karl Popper called this process of hypothesis testing 'falsification', and thought that it was the best way to describe how science constantly questions and refines itself.
		Until the latest study, scientists were the only group of experts that had been shown to use falsification.
		They also want to test chess masters in other activities that involve testing hypotheses - such as logic problems - to discover if their falsification skill is transferable.
	www.dailyspeculations.com /zachar/falsification.html (725 words)

	Wrightslaw - News - Special Education Survey: Document Alteration, Falsification and Forgery by Dee Alpert, Esq.
		Based on reports from parents, advocates, attorneys, and past or present special education staff around the country, it appears that falsification of documents and forgery of signatures may be common and widespead.
		If so, this must be brought to the attention of the Commission on Excellence in Special Education and the Congress so that appropriate amendments to the IDEA can be proposed.
		Falsification of documents should not be overlooked because the actions were taken by school personnel.
	www.wrightslaw.com /news/2002/survey.alpert.htm (1374 words)

	The Hindu : National : ``Falsification'' of accounts: judge's poser to prosecution
		The Madras High Court, hearing an anticipatory bail plea by the senior Sankaracharya of the Kanchi Mutt, Sri Jayendra Saraswathi, in the ``Falsification of mutt accounts case,'' today asked the prosecution on how the provisions dealing with cheating, forgery and using forged documents could be invoked in the case.
		If it was the Government's case that with a view to suppressing the evidence relating to the alleged payment made to the assailants in the Sankararaman murder case, then there was a ``proper provision'' in Section 201 (causing disappearance of evidence of offence, or giving false information to screen an offender), Mr.
		The charge of falsification of documents would lie only if it was done ``without lawful authority," he said adding that the Mutt authorities had lawful authority to operate their bank accounts.
	www.hindu.com /2005/02/03/stories/2005020308451200.htm (439 words)

	Australian Labor Party: Falsification Of Safety Inspection Records For HMAS Sydney (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Federal Labor is very concerned by media reports detailing the apparent falsification of safety inspection records by Australian Defence Industries.
		In her judgement, Justice Bennett noted that Chubb had failed to 'implement a system to ensure that it could meet the obligations which it had contracted to perform'.
		"These allegations against ADI are very disturbing because the apparent falsification of safety checks on the HMAS Sydney came directly after a coronial inquiry into the deaths of four young sailors on the HMAS Westralia.
	www.alp.org.au /media/0105/msdef051.php (274 words)

	Review of Private Truths, Public Lies by Timur Kuran
		Timur Kuran wrote Private Truths, Public Lies: The Social Consequences of Preference Falsification with the thesis that a significant number of people frequently lie concerning their beliefs and that these lies have dramatic social effects.
		Kuran points out on page 33 that numerous psychologists, such as Freud and Maslow, have shown that humans have a legitimate need to be honest about themselves.
		Kuran writes that there is a possible benefit to preference falsification, though.
	www.brucesabin.com /private_truths_public_lies.html (978 words)

	Forensic documents - fraud, forgery, falsification by Handwriting Expet Per F Andersen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		examine handwritings in cases where fraud, forgery, falsification might be a factor.
		As a Forensic Document Examiner it is my job to determine whether a handwriting is authentic or forged.
		It is frequently necessary to determine if a particular handwriting is carried out by a certain person, as in cases of suspected fraud, forgery or falsification:
	www.skriftekspert.dk /english.htm (264 words)

	Case Study 2: Falsification of Data
		FALSIFICATION: In research ethics the term "falsification" means changing or misrepresenting data or experiments, or misrepresenting other significant matters, such as the credentials of an investigator in a research proposal.
		Distinguishing falsification of data from legitimate data selection takes judgment and an understanding of statistical methods.
		Convinced that his report is sound however, and concerned that the inclusion of the anomalous data would only detract from the essentials of the report, Elton does not include these figures in the report.
	www.eas.asu.edu /~cse494db/prof_ethics/data_falsifying.html (821 words)

	Imago Dei: Intelligent Design and Falsifiability, #2
		Without some familiarity with the difficulties of falsification, one might assume that falsification is just as simple as posing a test, seeing it fail, and then affixing a label to the theory to which the test belongs: FALSIFIED.
		It might be better, though, to show that a simplistic notion of falsification doesn’t work in a lot of cases, historically, that are otherwise considered paradigm cases of scientific practice.
		Falsification as a term is used in forums with laypeople and scientists, so it is important to show that simplistic notions don't work in the actual practice of science.
	www.imago-dei.net /imago_dei/2004/12/intelligent_des_1.html (4558 words)

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