Walter Kirn

The idea that Americans favor politicians who either remind them of themselves or can imagine what their selves are like because they too have struggled and sung the blues, is, like very best theories of human behavior, immune to falsification by mere evidence.

American Novelist

Norman Finkelstein

My parents often wondered why I would grow so indignant at the falsification and exploitation of the Nazi genocide. The most obvious answer is that it has been used to justify criminal policies of the Israeli state and U.S. support for these policies.

American Educator

Gunter Grass

Everybody knows how fallible memory can sometimes be. You remember certain fragments precisely, but as soon as you try to join the fragments together, for a story, there is a certain - not falsification, but a shifting.

German Author

Lee Smolin

There certainly is a tension between the relativity of simultaneity and non-locality in quantum theory, but it's not strong enough to add up to a falsification of either side by itself.

American Physicist

Barkha Dutt

To call the coronavirus a great equaliser turned out to be the greatest falsification of our time.

Indian Journalist

Ed Markey

The falsification of scientific data or analysis is always a serious matter.

American Politician

Imre Lakatos

There is no falsification before the emergence of a better theory.

Hungarian Philosopher

Falsification involves deliberate dishonesty, not innocent mistakes or errors.

Intention to Deceive

Using falsification can lead to legal action, job termination, or academic penalties.

Serious Consequences

Look for inconsistencies or details that don't match when identifying falsification.

Detecting Falsification

Falsification is essential in science to disprove hypotheses, not to deceive.

Science and Proof

It's about testing a belief against evidence objectively, without bias.

Objective Testing

Falsification encourages skepticism and critical thinking about information presented as truth.

Critical Thinking

 So you've got this highly stylized portrait of something that was not entirely of this earth -- it was a portrait of a star. And actually, we see glamorized photos of stars all the time -- they call them false color. Glamour is a form of falsification,