For molecular research, in the absence of extensive replication, the refutation rate may occasionally exceed 99 .

Testability is falsifiability but there are degrees of testability some theories are more testable, more exposed to refutation, than others they take, as it were, greater risks.

In a paper in the Journal of the American Medical Association published in July 2005, I showed that refutation is very common, even for the most prestigious research findings.

Today, it is clear that fundamentalists and their supporters are completely closed off to even the most elaborate theological refutation of their views, even when produced by distinguished religious authorities.

The goodwill and the cheerful determination of all South Africans on that occasion were a marvelous refutation, it seemed to me, of the cynicism that so often weakens our work.

I take this very scientific attitude, that everything you've learned is just provisional, that it's always open to recantation or refutation or questioning, and I think the same applies to society.

At a time when there is so much preaching about democratic principles, it is truly regrettable that an Organization that should be a world paragon of democratic practice should be setting such a sorry and sad example of complete refutation of democratic procedure.

5.6 With respect to the State party's statement that the Egyptian authorities rejected the allegations made by the complainant in March 2003, counsel observes that any contrary reaction would have been surprising, and that such refutation does not disprove the complainant's allegation.

The Special Rapporteur also reported at length on the difficult negotiating process, with particular emphasis on the Governors Island Agreement (see A 47 975 S 26063, para. 5), its refutation by the Haitian military and the subsequent suspension and reimposition of sanctions by the international community.