No one can prove or disprove these things, not any more than anyone can prove or disprove love or fear or any other human emotion.
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But that doesn't mean there's sufficient evidence to disprove them.
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Mr Varoufakis's European ambitions do not exactly disprove the stereotype.
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We didn't want people to go in to disprove it.
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All it takes to disprove it is a single loss.
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That's how you predict, gather evidence, verify, disprove, and support.
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How could we ever prove or disprove such a theory?
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Mr. Mueller's indictment of 13 Russians tends to disprove that.
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The meeting itself seems to disprove a conspiracy of collusion.
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Very difficult for other people in the locker room to disprove.
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The resulting comments certainly did not really help disprove the stereotype.
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To be clear, the paper isn't trying to disprove black holes.
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He immediately set to work to challenge, even disprove Hamilton's theory.
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Given Wickr's automatic deletion system, that claim is impossible to disprove.
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The NFL must now disprove Kaepernick's collusion claim independently in court.
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Through scientific research we try to disprove the effectiveness of treatments.
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The nation's top field general would disprove critics by demonstrating progress.
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He then went on to decisively disprove that idea as president.
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That doesn't mean we need to go out to disprove everything.
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I write not to disprove what Verizon issued in a press release,
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Frieda died in 2014, so she can't help prove or disprove it.
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It's a 1950s government operation designed to investigate — and disprove — UFO sightings.
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But the TARDIS is advanced alien technology, making it hard to disprove.
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How can you prove or disprove what is happening in someone's head?
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Meanwhile, Zellner aims to disprove blood spatter evidence in Halbach's Rav 4.
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Trump didn't disprove that theory in 503; he simply delayed the inevitable.
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"I can't disprove [solipsism], but the idea seems pretty unlikely," Jens said.
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It is Bradley's job to quell that doubt and disprove that charge.
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Barry's multiple acts further disprove Scott Fitzgerald's famous dictum about American lives.
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It was such a gift to have Meera singlehandedly disprove that assertion.
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The calendars do not disprove Dr. Blasey's allegations, Judge Kavanaugh's team acknowledged.
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"It's impossible to disprove until the involved people start talking," he said.
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Kavanaugh can't just dispassionately try to disprove the allegations made against him.
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Muddy the waters with false accusations that are impossible to fully disprove.
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"Short of some history, it's hard to prove or disprove," says Bader.
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But you have a window of opportunity to disprove those negative impressions.
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Trying to disprove a conspiracy theory thus usually only serves to reinforce it.
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Finding the truth requires new ideas, and it requires luminiferous ethers to disprove.
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This doesn't disprove the so-called "dark matter" gravitational anomaly we see today.
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Marracci worked to disprove Islam, carefully translating and rebutting each sura in turn.
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The first of these is relatively easy to disprove just by using facts.
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How did Mark Zuckerberg's company disprove the sceptics and become an advertising behemoth?
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When you are always wrong, you seek an audience to disprove that theory.
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His fundraising and poll numbers disprove the idea that he's an also-ran.
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Since the NHL won't send its players, you can never disprove that theory.
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Here, McAuley framed it as what Tomlin was seeking to prove, not disprove.
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Hal, Dostum notes approvingly, has "killer eyes," which Mr. Shannon certainly doesn't disprove.
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" He thanked Bonnell for giving him "the tools to disprove my own opinions.
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People like that love to disprove the notion that women are actually funny.
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This is hard to disprove — but very, very hard to believe, as Sen.
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He didn't disprove it, but he also didn't establish that it was the case.
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To disprove the People report, he posed for a photo sitting in a coffin.
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Maybe the LHC could prove, or disprove, the existence of a dark matter particle.
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Trump apparently also insisted that Comey try to disprove the pee tape, for Melania.
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But the urban legend persisted because, well, nothing had ever happened to disprove it.
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Zellner gets her blood spatter expert to disprove yet another piece of DNA evidence.
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" Points one and two fundamentally disprove the idea that Trump "started speaking very quickly.
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They both could disprove the adage that winners never quit and quitters never win.
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The only thing that could disprove the accusations are being withheld by the candidate.
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"The globe model is the easiest thing in the world to disprove," he said.
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No credible scientist would ever think of using it to prove or disprove anything.
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How does one prove or disprove an allegation without any physical evidence or witnesses?
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Those images and statistics like ridership for Washington's Metro appeared to disprove his claim.
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CNN's article did not independently verify or disprove the claims made by Parnas's attorney.
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It's like I'm missing an opportunity to disprove preconceptions about women in the sport.
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Now, the report doesn't disprove that economics played a key role in the election.
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In fact, all the books of May disprove any lingering misconception that reading isn't fun.
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And even then, further research might add more complexity or nuance, or even disprove it.
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Unfortunately there's not a lot of research out there to prove or disprove my fears.
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And with no broader data to disprove them, the anecdotes are hard to argue with.
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With this in mind, Brown or Batygin went to work to disprove that planet theory.
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This would disprove Kavanaugh's conspiracy theory that the claims against him are a political sham.
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But CNN's former White House correspondent Jessica Yellin is trying to disprove that conventional wisdom.
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In the weeks leading up to an election that would be almost impossible to disprove.
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Match intends to litigate these baseless allegations now, and Match intends to conclusively disprove them.
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We also have video evidence that further discredits and disprove other versions of these events.
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Reporters, including some from The New York Times, worked to confirm or disprove the memos.
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And the problem was, no paper trail existed that could prove or disprove their accounts.
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More typically, the scholarship written to disprove her connection to Jefferson routinely diminished Hemings's humanity.
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All we know is that they haven't announced any findings that prove (or disprove) collusion.
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All it would take to disprove it was the sudden and unexpected sight of an other.
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The research does not disprove the gateway theory; it merely shows that another explanation is plausible.
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The goal was to disprove the "narrative," Joey says, that the "mainstream media" had been pushing.
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Well, it's impossible to disprove to people who think that "the truth" is just another conspiracy.
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So, if you have your suspicions, simply go to the account to confirm or disprove them.
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Expert: Hard to disprove North Korea's claim North Korea's conventional weaponry is dated, with limited effectiveness.
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The retraction didn't disprove LaCour's idea; it just meant there was no meaningful research on it.
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"There's no one who could prove or disprove how likely that's going to be," he said.
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" Some Democrats pushed back, arguing that Republicans were trying to force witnesses to "disprove a negative.
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All the stories reported in the media are not true and we have evidences to disprove.
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This category doesn't have a long enough track record to either prove, or disprove, the thesis.
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On the other hand, Marean adds that this does not necessarily disprove the Toba catastrophic theory.
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OK. So if this goes ahead, are you going to start trying to disprove other conspiracies?
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And if any news outlets did disprove him, he could simply dismiss them as FAKE NEWS!
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The fact that scientists have been wrong before does not disprove any scientific theory in particular.
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I believe Kavanaugh deserves to be accused of actions he can potentially disprove, not merely deny.
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We can't prove or disprove assessments of what's possible or what may happen in the future.
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MORE, of wiretapping his phones, causing resources to be used to disprove the nonsensical claim. 10.
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Yes. Was that really a tough task given how easy it is to disprove his conspiracy?
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We examine the evidence, the facts, that disprove that an assault could be the victim's fault.
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With a tight smile, Mr. Schiff said he welcomed the opportunity to disprove Mr. Trump's accusation.
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What are two of those misconceptions and what evidence does Dr. Vaught give to disprove them?
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Asserting physical prowess was a way to disprove the old stereotype that ballet was not manly.
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You can also disprove literally every moon landing conspiracy claim, of which there are many dozens.
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Here's the next possible frontier: people producing pictures that never existed but are hard to disprove.
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James Inhofe of Oklahoma, who famously brought a snowball onto the Senate floor to "disprove" climate change.
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" Lockyear adds, "Right now the investigation is to substantiate the report by the father or disprove it.
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Aida consistently denies the criminal allegations and wishes someone could go to El Salvador and disprove them.
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I didn't set out to prove or disprove anything; I set out to help people feel heard.
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Science is not out there trying to disprove the existence of God — we can't even consider that.
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"We didn't go out and try to disprove it," recalls an attorney who worked on the matter.
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And 53% of those in relationships worry that their partners will disprove of their recreational marijuana use.
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Despite modern science continuing to disprove its purported medicinal benefits, the illegal trade of rhino horn continues.
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" Jackson said the charge would be easy to disprove and insisted "we're still moving ahead as planned.
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Saturday night's 7-2 romp of the slumping San Jose Sharks did nothing to disprove Josi's theory.
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But at least it would be possible to disprove blatant lies with documentary evidence and other witnesses.
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The key here is these organizations go into the work without specifically trying to disprove the statement.
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For every academic study suggesting rap music leads to crime, there is further data to disprove it.
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AT&T and Time Warner said they would disprove the notion that the deal would raise prices.
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Not the police, who have nothing to disprove the well-choreographed story of five well-connected women.
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The senators used previous comments from Mr. Trump's handpicked F.B.I. director to disprove the Trump team's theory.
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So, too, was her zany effort to establish an online "Fact Squad" to disprove "myths" about her.
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Year by year, Gonzaga runs out of accolades to garner, skeptics to disprove and objectives to accomplish.
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The results wholeheartedly disprove the contention that CDFIs are passé and that they are no longer needed.
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This study does much to disprove the thinking of the 1960s through the aughts with respect to butter.
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While the Internet certainly appears to be developing nicely, we can neither prove nor disprove its alleged neutrality.
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Anti-war activists attempted to disprove that claim by offering $2,000 to schools that admitted to barring recruiters.
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For one, Columbus did not disprove that the Earth is flat and discover that the world is round.
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Evidence has been sealed by a California court so we are not able to disprove every false accusation.
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Mr Ray is arguing that his original defence lawyers were ineffective, a claim the prosecution wants to disprove.
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Over the course of the last three years every year we've had to disprove one of those notions.
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But the fact that Trump didn't even know Putin -- according to Trump -- doesn't disprove there was collusion. 20163.
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The current climate makes it exceedingly difficult for one laboratory to confirm or disprove the findings of another.
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And it would be really easy for Donald Trump to disprove all of these wild and baseless accusations.
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The EPA needs these studies to prove or disprove its own hypotheses and establish sound, well-informed regulations.
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The commission's purpose is not to prove or disprove what President Trump said back in January or February.
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Gustavo Dudamel, famous, handsome and rich, lives as if he wants to disprove Rousseau's famous maxim on happiness.
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Perhaps a sensible course is to do what seems reasonable since lack of evidence doesn't disprove probable causality.
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The falsehood had gone viral before Canadian authorities became aware of it and were able to disprove it.
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Mourinho would love to be the man to disprove that notion, to throw a spoke in Liverpool's wheels.
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Further, her own words given during a recent and rare press gaggle disprove her excuses to the FBI.
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Even when confronted with facts that disprove the narrative of American disengagement, European officials simply don't believe it.
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That could help attorneys lay out clearer cases to prove, or disprove, claims of violence committed during slumber.
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Over the course of the Grabbys, he would disprove much of what I thought I knew about porn stars.
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He recently went on a Twitter spree to disprove round-Earth truthers, even arguing with astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson.
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Continuing to disprove rumors of a split, the couple strolled through Manhattan and were photographed looking cuddly and happy.
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But with so much of this science still so uncertain, it's hard to either prove or disprove their claims.
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But astronomers haven't been able to peer close enough to a black hole to prove or disprove the theory.
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But growing numbers of upstart young drinks-makers who are bringing gin back into fashion aim to disprove this.
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How do you disprove anything when everything that's different from what the Q cult says is considered fake news?
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It was a potentially credible claim since it would be so easy to disprove if no one corroborated it.
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Science that does not fit environmentalists' narrative and evidence of historical trends that disprove the administration's models are excluded.
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And it's very difficult to prove or disprove any of these ideas if you're only focusing on one legislature.
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Through this simple act she helped disprove the myth that the disease could be caught simply through physical contact.
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I am not trying to disprove that Trump's numbers are lower among all adults than actual adults who vote.
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All it rebuts is the weaker claim that WikiLeaks works for Russia, which is impossible to prove or disprove.
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But the Republican refusal of an F.B.I. investigation left Ms. Mitchell without crucial information to disprove Dr. Blasey's story.
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Micu claimed to have "text messages and witnesses to disprove Ms. Rothe's allegations," but declined to pass them on.
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Does the public need to see such a photo to confirm or disprove the official account of the events?
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He said that he first began looking for the beast about 12 years ago, aiming to disprove the legend.
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The Justice Department said in May that evidence couldn't prove or disprove that Sterling was reaching for a weapon.
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However, experts in other fields say that ghosts fall outside the realm of what science can prove or disprove.
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Queer people should not have to disprove assumed straightness, or be forced to "come out" on a routine basis.
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The Justice Department also said evidence couldn't prove or disprove Salamoni's assertion that Sterling was reaching for a gun.
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The task of the investigators then is to run down and prove (or disprove) what's in the whistleblower's complaint.
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" Cuomo closed telling viewers that the GOP "can deny the charges," but "their problem is they cannot disprove them.
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"If the president wants to disprove any allegations, he can authorize the release of these things tomorrow," Coons said.
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He locked himself in his motel room and was sure he would prove or disprove the conjecture before coming out.
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Prosecutors couldn't corroborate Wilson's claim that Brown reached for his gun but couldn't find any evidence to disprove Wilson's account.
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This exceptional case doesn't disprove cosmic censorship as Penrose meant it, because it doesn't suggest naked singularities might actually form.
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Furthermore, "law enforcement" separations can happen for a much broader array of reasons — including suspicions that are difficult to disprove.
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But if there's a way to disprove it, we can trust the hordes of eager debunkers to dig it up. .
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"First of all, the commission is not to prove or disprove what the President speculated about in January," Kobach said.
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To prove anything about Le Roux via my technique, I'd have to disprove dozens, perhaps hundreds, of equally likely candidates.
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In fact, said lies get enormous coverage because they're easy to disprove and offend the media's basic sense of decency.
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Paradoxically, though, they did not support further research to confirm or disprove past findings and actually sought to block it.
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And on Wednesday night, the 19-year-old scored a goal that did very little to disprove his compatriot's claim.
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We rapidly declassified intelligence and released satellite imagery to disprove Russia's denials their troops and equipment weren't in Eastern Ukraine.
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No, the evidence gathered by the British and French inquiries and presented to the inquest disprove them beyond reasonable doubt.
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Our frenzied conjecture allowed them the privilege of sweeping majestically in every so often to confirm, complicate or disprove it.
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He regarded these alleged "offworld implants" as the hard evidence that could either prove or disprove extraterrestrial visitations to Earth.
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This innocent calf's existence does not do anything to prove this theory but also, she does not necessarily disprove it.
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They did so not by contesting the fact that the gag order stymies competition — for that was impossible to disprove.
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" He thanked Bonnell for giving him "the tools to disprove my own opinions, while avoiding the propaganda that reinforced it.
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The Justice Department also said that evidence couldn't prove or disprove Salamoni's assertion that Sterling was reaching for a gun.
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"Vanity Fair's Writers on Writers," a collection of pieces from the magazine's modern incarnation, offers little to disprove this theory.
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Iran, or any other adversary, could claim that people were killed or injured, and that might be difficult to disprove.
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We'd like to think the days of white people trotting out their black friends to disprove their racism are over.
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"Facebook does not believe it is in a position to substantiate or disprove allegations of possible collusion," the company said.
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The pressure to disprove pervasive cultural stereotypes of slovenliness, ignorance, criminal threat and rapacious sexuality meant striving for perfection always.
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Instead of changing course, Exxon actively sought to disprove climate science, because recognizing its validity would be bad for business.
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You form a hypothesis, test it, and eventually gather enough data to support or disprove what you thought was going on.
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However, he's always denied any wrongdoing, making significant efforts to disprove assertions he would marginalize the Muslim community throughout his term.
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But there was one lie Friday so flagrant and easy to disprove there's no good reason not to point it out.
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Wöhler's discovery was one of the preliminary findings to disprove this entire theory as he was able to create urea inorganically.
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In it, he attempts to disprove the idea that a single sheet of paper can't be folded more than seven times.
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Here's how: First, per Zellner, she has to disprove every piece of evidence that Ken Kratz told the jury in 2006.
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Trump, in Comey's telling, was perturbed at the rumor and even suggested Comey and the FBI investigate it to disprove it.
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Inhofe is also well-known for bringing a snowball to the Senate floor in 2015 to try to disprove global warming.
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On Friday morning, Iran's Revolutionary Guard said it would be releasing images to disprove Trump's claim, Reuters reported, citing state media.
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"The only reason to have a hypothesis was to try to disprove it," she used to say, according to Dr. Laughlin.
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But Donald J. Trump is a master of making big claims, challenging others to disprove them and benefiting from the debate.
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They provide greater certainty for industry and investors, disprove opponents "parade of horribles" objections, and lay the groundwork for future measures.
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And the midterms do not disprove an important argument about how a more left-leaning Democrat might win a presidential election.
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Largely because of the belief that people like Gates are super-geniuses, which Gates' involvement with Epstein would seem to disprove.
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Mr. Beal put forward a more general form of the theorem and issued a challenge to prove or disprove the assertion.
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"First of all, the commission is not to prove or disprove what the president speculated about in January," he told CNN.
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Even if he was telling the truth, no one would believe him over the prosecutor, who fought hard to disprove it.
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But before he could move up in rank, Raymond would have to disprove some of the things people had said about him.
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But such causation in the stock market is impossible to prove or disprove, unlike, say, the link between smoking and lung cancer.
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A spokesman for the governor has said the text message does not disprove Christie's contention that he was unaware of the plot.
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Archie reported Agatha's disappearance as amnesia—though it is hard to prove or disprove that she had indeed entered some fugue state.
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Anyone can say 'I know someone at Insta who can get you verified,' and there's no way to prove or disprove that.
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I think what creates a strong connection with customers is when a company has the ability to disprove a globally accepted untruth.
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We hope to disprove the idea that electric cars can't be lifestyle vehicles can't be things that carry your family, your gear.
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Trump's accusations against the Democratic Party may stick in the same way if Democrats are not quick to disavow and disprove them.
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His tax returns are the only documents that can conclusively corroborate or disprove his claims and allay concerns about conflicts of interest.
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The optics are bizarre: Republican senators look on stoically as Blasey shares her story and their hired gun tries to disprove it.
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"I believe I am totally innocent and we came to this process...to disprove the accusations," Saca said in court on Friday.
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"Our job is now to disprove that EVs are fragile, that they can't go offroad, that they can't get wet," McHale said.
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But, if so, it won't disprove Mr. Trump's claims any more than the high growth of the second quarter proved him right.
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Knowing that the US Environmental Protection Agency is currently working to disprove climate change is enough to make one feel utterly helpless.
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But fortunately for them, there are plenty of good Samaritans who are only too willing to disprove the old "finders keepers" taunt.
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But Austria does seem to disprove the idea that Mr. Trump's victory accelerated a broader public acceptance of populist, anti-establishment forces.
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While you might think that an event like the eclipse would easily disprove the Flat Earth theory, that isn't the case at all.
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For example, in mid-November the Young Republican Federation of Alabama voted to suspend their support until the candidate could disprove the allegations.
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"Weather is not climate — an individual event does not disprove a long term trend," noted Syracuse University climate scientist Tripti Bhattacharya via email.
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Wade in 1992 doesn't disprove her initial calculation—that she needed five votes to win and had no path forward short of that.
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But none of this stopped Fox News personalities from sharing the fake story, seemingly to disprove the Russian hacking allegations — and protect Trump.
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As a small boy, I have no way (and no desire) to disprove these claims; I have to take his word for them.
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Black people have lived with this a long time, lived in the position of always having to counteract stereotypes and disprove the negatives.
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Celmatix aims to disprove the idea that older women can't have healthy children or that infertility is the result of poor lifestyle choices.
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Considered together, these results disprove one of the oldest canards about Southern politics: that you need to run pro-life candidates to win.
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This new evidence -- which Bland's family said was withheld from them -- seems to disprove Encinia's claim that he had feared for his life.
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So much so, that they are placing a million dollar bet for any computer programmer who can prove or disprove this assessment wrong.
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McCullough's allegations about a scheme to undermine him are very serious, but they're also very difficult to prove or disprove at this point.
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Simmons had an unusual interest in statistics, the way its airtight logic could neatly prove, or disprove, the worth of an extravagant idea.
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"It is unfortunate that Mr. Ross experiences this, but we dispute his allegations and plan to disprove them in court," the spokesperson added.
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Some of these films use cinema technology to try to disprove the existence of ghosts; others, through movie magic, try to conjure them.
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Probation officers frequently use polygraphs to "prove or disprove" a person's statement; they are often used in sex offender parole cases, for example.
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It appeared, lithe and leaking some kind of psychic fluid, and it waxed and waned, almost threatening to disappear and disprove itself somehow.
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We worked closely alongside them, iterating very rapidly as we continually tested the many theories we'd come up with to validate or disprove them.
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No, this spate of unusually cold weather obviously does not disprove climate change or global warming, as our very smart president suggested on Thursday.
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You've learnt from all those interviews with sporting superheroes how regularly they disprove the possibility that exciting, compelling things are occurring in their heads.
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I originally suspected that the intention of all this exploration would be to disprove the religious experience as just another impulse of the brain.
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"These prompt actions disprove the false claims that Ryanair did not respond 'quickly' or 'appropriately' to this video," a spokesperson for the airline said.
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Earlier this month, a judge agreed to seal her medical records, which were obtained by Dr. Luke to try to disprove Kesha's abuse allegations.
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Dr. Luke, whose legal name is Lukasz Gottwald, obtained the medical records in an effort to disprove Sebert's allegations of sexual and emotional abuse.
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His first theory was that it could have been a developer unit, but Mark DeLoura, a former lead engineer at Nintendo, helped disprove that.
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And the only other card that should be flipped is the 183, since an E on the other side would again disprove the rule.
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When rumors that she might be a lesbian spread around the school, however, Kate decides to date Luke in an effort to disprove them.
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Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards said in a statement they would release images to disprove Trump's contention that the U.S. Navy had destroyed a drone.
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Early testing of promising innovations should both time limited and involve the number of providers to empirically prove or disprove the innovation thesis. 2.
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Government antitrust officials argued that both mergers would lead to less competition and higher prices for Americans, which Aetna and Anthem tried to disprove.
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Our criminal justice system requires prosecutors to prove cases, not for defendants to disprove them, before being able to take away a person's liberty.
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In today's academy, social scientists begin with theory, often-grand theory, and then see to what degree actual people confirm or disprove those theories.
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He had become a clubhouse favorite, displayed good defense and seemed to disprove the notion that he struggled against left-handed pitching after hitting .
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She says she also wanted to disprove the narrative of natural winemakers as careless, and to show how scientific and experimental some producers are.
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The fear of the parents at Al-Bayrouni — that the war was the cause of their children's cancers — is hard to prove or disprove.
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Instead, they have dismissed them as "fake news" or as a witch hunt, but they have done little to directly disprove the allegations themselves.
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And Fatur notes that much of this is speculative, since there simply isn't sufficient archaeological or historical evidence to prove or disprove his hypothesis.
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"It creates a pretext that's quite difficult to disprove for officers to approach and search our clients in neighborhoods with a high police presence."
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Also on Tuesday, Fox News host Sean Hannity said Moore had "24 hours" to disprove the allegations or be forced to exit the race.
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Case reports, case series and small studies are considered insufficient evidence to prove or disprove the safety and efficacy of a drug or treatment.
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Mr. Siggers was able to disprove that after a law professor at the University of Michigan helped him pay for his own ballistics analysis.
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To not even try to disprove the fact that Shkreli committed fraud, though, was a hail mary on the part of the defense team.
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I also think that he's irritated and even enraged by those who check facts and look for evidence to confirm or disprove his claims.
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"If there is a quick way to prove our model, I don't know what it is — but there is a quick way to disprove it."
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Still, the recent rally shouldn't obscure the fact that the rebound doesn't do anything to disprove the idea that it remains a bear market environment.
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Platforms have said that they don't tag posts based on political parties, but without independently derived datasets, it's impossible to disprove these claims from conservatives.
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The scientific method consists of generating a hypothesis, attempting to disprove the hypothesis through testing, and accumulating those tests to come up with shared knowledge.
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Mason, who claims to still be working for Kelly, said his accusers have manipulated the media and that he has evidence to disprove their allegations.
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That, he believes, would be the best way to prove, or disprove, the idea that Toxoplasma gondii, causes mental problems as well as physical ones.
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He'd spent his life studying conceptions of time and space, and he used this experiment to lightheartedly disprove the possibility of traveling backwards through time.
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It'd be hard to argue that Segall doesn't have a knack for writing a good song, and Emotional Mugger doesn't do anything to disprove that.
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Of the many simple truths in the world, Hank Scott picked an especially stubborn one to disprove: that nobody likes flying in the middle seat.
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Her objective was to disprove the legal conclusions of this adjudicated crime, advance her own theories and suggest who the true murderer might have been.
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"Having these really long statutes of limitations where it makes it virtually impossible to disprove what the victim is saying is grossly unfair," she added.
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In December 2013, investigators closed the inquiry, writing that "the investigation was unable to prove or disprove" whether the officers had conducted an improper search.
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When it comes to SABRE, it's possible that the experiment may disprove the best evidence physicists have found so far for a dark matter particle.
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Stettin said Express Scripts would release its own Medicare report soon, and it would disprove the "fallacy of rebates driving up the cost of medications."
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His understanding of political issues is deep but not especially wide; what he cares about most is being able to verify or disprove specific claims.
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Unassailable and undefined, it is the perfect conversation-stopper when debating opponents, particularly when you control the information that would prove or disprove your position.
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The last two years often seem like a concerted effort to disprove "Occam's Razor," the theory that the simplest explanation is usually the right one.
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Dr. Meinwald would then isolate compounds and synthesize them in the laboratory so that Dr. Eisner could conduct experiments to confirm or disprove a hypothesis.
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It's also possible that the President delays firing McMaster in an attempt to disprove reports in the media, one source familiar with Trump's thinking said.
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Donald Trump's Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh has had to replay his wretched high school years in an attempt to disprove accusations of sexual assault.
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Gordon plans to get out of the trade if the stock moves above $116.50, since that will disprove his theory that $116 will serve as resistance.
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But it's worse that he's claiming the problem is the lack of women already in the field when that's both untrue and incredibly easy to disprove.
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So, this experiment doesn't include the element of randomness required for it to rule out hidden variable theories that experiments like these are meant to disprove.
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Per Eater, a response on Reddit by mlball98—who claims to have worked at a Chuck E. Cheese for two years—appeared to disprove this theory.
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Now, I'm not here to celebrate rabid mobs of online agitators motivated by the desire to disprove a person's claims in order to see him humiliated.
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The star is probably not enveloped by a Dyson sphere, but that shouldn't preclude scientists from looking for signals that may prove or disprove its existence.
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He compared himself to the team's lights-out closer, Keith Foulke, and vowed to disprove the notion of any "curse" on either him or the Sox.
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FEINSTEIN: And the terrible and hard part of this is when we get an allegation, we're not in a position to prove it or disprove it.
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"Evidence that could have been collected, to either prove or disprove what happened that night, had been lost forever because of their incompetence," Mr. Donaway said.
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" The edited clip also featured a banner that read: "To Disprove President Trump Wrong Chris Cuomo Has A Mental Breakdown On TV And Calls His Mom.
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The best way to create a test is to start by clarifying what data would disprove the accuracy of whichever big assumption we want to explore.
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The video — like the dashcam footage and cellphone video recorded by Scott's wife — does not conclusively prove, or disprove, Charlotte-Mecklenburg police's account of the Sept.
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While we can't 100% disprove this idea, security experts have also failed to find evidence the social network is eavesdropping on users to target ads more effectively.
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Behind the scenes, a company that's struggled to figure out how to mass manufacture cars had implored workers to get production on track and disprove their doubters.
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While I am not trying to prove or disprove that, I am going to share my impressions of their latest (expensive) household appliance: the V8 Absolute vacuum.
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If you can prove or disprove its cryptically short equation, you'd be a million dollars richer—and maybe even billions of dollars richer, depending on your scruples.
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Many studies are also one-offs with no substantive follow-up to flesh out or disprove their claims, leaving fish oil consumers with tons of weak information.
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This current wave of automation might be the one to disprove the Luddite Fallacy, because today the more our machines learn, the more they learn to learn.
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"To have to disprove that you created a work seems somehow wrong and not fair," said Amy M. Adler, a professor at New York University Law School.
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Sarsour is on a mission to disprove the damaging depictions of Muslim women that permeate American media and pop culture (specifically, she cites the Disney classic Aladdin).
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Their performance does not disprove Biden's argument, but it pokes holes in the idea that a left-wing candidate would be inherently unelectable in a general election.
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The tariffs disprove the notion that Congress and broader business interests would prevent the Trump administration from turning its saber-rattling into real sanctions, Mr. Prasad said.
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"I think what we did was disprove the myth that it's too hard to take collective action," said Celie O'Neil-Hart, who works in YouTube's marketing department.
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Of course, they'll put films like Wonder Woman and the recently released Alita Battle Angel against the Brie Larson's of the world, to disprove their own misogyny.
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But the calendar pages from June, July and August of that year, which were reviewed by The New York Times, also in no way disprove her accusation.
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"One of the most important things we do here is disprove and dismantle ideas," said William Zemp, chief strategy and innovation officer at Southern New Hampshire University.
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And they worked to disprove his lawyers' claims that he was acting only in the nation's interests when he sought to enlist Ukraine to investigate political rivals.
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Journalists who cover ocean issues have a powerful tool that can help verify or disprove claims of fishing vessel operators about when and where they were fishing.
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Wong's upcoming TV and Netflix projects—and a stand-up tour set for 2019— disprove the fallacy that a market does not exist for creatives of color.
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And Invisible Children, the company that started the campaign, hasn't been able to disprove the claim that it benefited more from the campaign than anyone in Uganda.
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Her successes and failures will mean more, if the last few months have taught us anything, because people want her to prove or disprove something about American politics.
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Though the stars are notably younger than the possible collision that created them—between 10 and 50 million years old—Bidin says this doesn't disprove the group's findings.
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The authors are careful to point out their single study doesn't disprove that theory, but it does suggest, as other genetic studies have, that the relationship is complicated.
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This does not, of itself, disprove Epstein's Google claim (though Bloomberg later did so); it does create the impression that he is rather a lone voice in academia.
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There was no simple way to broadly prove or disprove its tenets except on theoretical grounds because we didn't know enough about genomic variation to resolve the dispute.
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Prior to that, he was a legislative aide to Republican Senator James Inhofe of Oklahoma, who famously brought a snowball onto the Senate floor to "disprove" climate change.
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Experts say there is a need for well-designed studies that can prove or disprove the benefits of spinal manipulation and whom it is most likely to help.
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We're all familiar with the negative aspects of amateur sleuthing, which has shown itself unreliable and sometimes even dangerous when having to establish facts rather than disprove them.
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Better accounting of class action payouts, in other words, could prove (or disprove!) the efficacy of class actions as a vehicle for delivering compensation to supposedly harmed consumers.
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Like all good theories, it takes a plausible core—pedophile rings really exist—and details which are easy to spin out of ambiguous evidence but hard to disprove.
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McCoy suggested that the texts presented no indication the woman was interested in sexual activity while Baute countered that her typed words were coherent enough to disprove intoxication.
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"Facebook does not believe it is in a position to substantiate or disprove allegations of possible collusion," the company responded, according to documents released by the committee Thursday.
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He vacationed there, and state officials were called upon to produce his birth certificate to disprove the false conspiracy theories that he had not been born in America.
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A primordial black hole is not the most obvious nor the most likely choice—but hey, science is about keeping an open mind and letting experiments disprove hypotheses.
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Mark Meadows of what she called a "racist" act of using a black woman as a "prop" as a way to disprove allegations of racism against the President.
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One problem Google faces is that a lot of fake news amounts to selective quoting, improper emphasis or assertions that are hard to disprove, instead of outright falsehoods.
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For a West Wing still reeling from reports of infighting and a pressure-cooker atmosphere, the speech provided an opportunity to disprove skeptics who see only dysfunction and disarray.
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In an article published in the latest issue of 33, our sister magazine of ideas, lifestyle and culture, our data editor set out to disprove this widely held view.
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But when the public gets concerned that two things correlate, it's up to the scientists to develop non-biased, realistic experiments that either prove or disprove cause-and-effect.
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Almost a quarter of the 41,000 forms that officially recorded the results had still not been released by the electoral commission, making it difficult to disprove Mr Odinga's claims.
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In this case and others, activists have used Ince's camera footage in courts to disprove false claims made against them by the police or as evidence for police brutality.
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A change to the law last year switched the burden of proof from defense attorneys making a case for it to prosecutors having to disprove the self-defense claim.
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Photo: AP.Prior to Plasco, it was difficult to produce counterexamples that would immediately disprove these truther axioms because out-of-control high-rise fires just don't happen very often.
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" While the MoCA test results may be surprising for those questioning Trump's mental health, it doesn't disprove Fire and Fury 's claims that the guy is "dumb as shit.
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He has previously denied allegations he abused Michelle, and a sheriff's internal investigation in 2010 "was unable to prove or disprove the allegations," according to documents obtained by PEOPLE.
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Risk aversion makes you cling to the belief that female-led games don't sell as much as male-led games do... Obviously, games like Horizon: Zero Dawn disprove that.
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This is the space where a lot of fad health trends thrive: There's no good data to prove cupping helps, but, likewise, there isn't data to disprove it either.
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Comey writes in the book that Trump had asked him to probe the infamous "pee tape" mentioned in the so-called Steele dossier in order to disprove its existence.
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Most of those who believed Afshar guilty assumed that more victims existed, though with none coming forward, and also statistics about underreporting, this was impossible to prove or disprove.
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"Arson is unique in that the prosecutor must not only prove that a crime was committed but also disprove other possible explanations by eliminating all accidental causes," it says.
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This would be, essentially, a 24-hour alibi service, in which one's every word and action is captured digitally — thus making it possible to disprove fakes when they arise.
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" The popularity of these vigorous expressions would seem to disprove the great line (and title of a coming film) from the Republican strategist Rick Wilson: "Everything Trump touches dies.
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Seeming to disprove the Democrats' allegations on their face, the Ukrainian president made no public announcement of a corruption investigation on CNN, but the U.S. aid was released anyway.
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And with no hard numbers to reckon with, no cold math to disprove the dream, no fewer than five candidates marched onstage to deliver something resembling a victory speech.
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"Finally, for the first time, people had a model to try to prove or disprove," Jeffrey Mogil, a professor of pain studies at McGill, said, in a phone interview.
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The Justice Department said in May that evidence couldn't prove or disprove that Sterling was reaching for a weapon, and that Sterling had a loaded gun in his pocket.
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A month after the February 2012 shooting, Sanford Police Chief Bill Lee said Zimmerman was not charged because there were no grounds to disprove his version of the events.
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These images disprove that Qing women idled behind palace walls and support the theory they were present to observe and advise how policies were crafted, partnerships constructed, and militaries mobilized.
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A 30-minute interview, including a tour of his suite, was granted largely in order to disprove rumors of mistreatment and of being moved from the hotel to a prison.
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It's a delicate operation, since much news striving to be "true" contains false information, and much fake news has the ring of truth and would take careful investigation to disprove.
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The defense had leaned hard on the idea that the events in question were simply too far in the past — too old to prove or disprove, just lost to time.
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But it was widely believed that these capabilities were limited, and that humans were "unable to counteract cumulative damage" to their joints, the study said -- which these new findings disprove.
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The reason: to find new aerial photos of his inauguration crowd that would disprove viral photos showing attendance at former President Obama's swearing-in surpassed the crowd size at Trump's.
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It's the wrong move — more on that in two seconds — but it's also a move that Kendall seems determined to disprove, right down to giving his dad a Judas kiss.
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This is not enough to prove Eichenwald's contention that the quote which Trump read out was publicized by a "coordinated Russian campaign," but it certainly does not disprove it, either.
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Wrong. Research we undertook over the last year was trying to empirically prove or disprove the idea that venture capital investors actually added value further to the capital they invested.
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Lying about sleeping with the her boyfriend wouldn't win anyone friends, and it's easy to disprove since Faith claims Jax's seduction went down over Twitter, where direct messages are forever.
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"You could imagine how difficult if not impossible that would be to disprove in the final weeks of a campaign and just how enormous that impact could be," he said.
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As the story unfolded, Breitbart became obsessed with uncovering any type of "evidence" that could disprove Fields' account, or at the very least, create a certain amount of reasonable doubt.
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This move comes on the heels of a judge ordering Joanna to hand over her gynecological records to help prove or disprove the smell at the heart of this case.
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In a 2011 gang rape civil lawsuit, Persky allowed defense attorneys to introduce photos of the plaintiff in skimpy clothes to disprove her claim she suffered PTSD following her attack.
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While the information to confirm or disprove specific elements of the experimental procedures likely still exists, much it remains classified, confidential or otherwise not readily available/locatable to the public.
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How could you obtain the evidence that once existed — including the ephemeral memories of witnesses regarding what they saw and heard — which you'd need to disprove the claims against you?
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The Justice Department said in May that evidence couldn't prove or disprove that Sterling was reaching for a weapon, and a state report released Tuesday said Sterling had a loaded .
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B.'s campaign says the plan is to "launch multiple satellites into space" in order to observe, and try to disprove, what centuries of science and technology have already confirmed.
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So when reports of miscounted results spread on social media and in the press (many from Sanders supporters), there was no paper trail that could prove or disprove their claims.
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News organizations spent frustrating months trying to prove or disprove that Mr. Cohen had traveled to Prague or that Mr. Trump might have indeed been visited by prostitutes in Moscow.
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A 30-minute interview, including a tour of his suite, was granted largely in order to disprove rumours of mistreatment and of being moved from the hotel to a prison.
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To the Editor: Dr. Friedman is right to point out that there is no available research to prove — or disprove — the notion that an epidemic of anxiety exists among teenagers.
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When it comes to life's struggles, the perception that life is an objectively fair meritocracy can actually be deeply harmful for people whose circumstances disprove that in a number of ways.
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Police are out in numbers, enforcing curfews, and state officials are denying or trying to logically disprove magical beliefs, or even accusing those acting on rumors of being unpatriotic or uncivilized.
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I speak not to disprove with Pete Wells and the rest spoke, but I am here to speak what I do know: A Bacon Mac 'N' Cheese Burger is damn tasty.
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At the very bedrock of science is the concept of falsification: A scientist runs a test, gathers his findings, and tries to disprove himself by replicating his experiment in other contexts.
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The details: The calendars do not list a party like the one recounted by Kavanaugh's accuser, Christine Blasey Ford, though his team acknowledges that fact does not necessarily disprove her allegations.
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It would be hard to disprove the case for a high-speed rail link between Italy and France, Italy's economy undersecretary Massimo Garavaglia saidin an interview with Il Corriere della Sera.
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There is no way to prove or disprove the hypothesis that the increase in net long positions is from sticky pension funds and macro tourists rather than flight-prone commodity funds.
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Rashida Tlaib, a Michigan Democrat, appeared to accuse him of what she called a "racist" act of using a black woman as a "prop" to disprove allegations of racism against Trump.
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Topic pointed to Trump repeatedly referring to the probe as a politically motivated "witch hunt" and said that making the investigators' findings fully available could help affirm or disprove those claims.
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According to the Simpsons wiki, the car is designed after a 1973 Plymouth Valiant, although the show has not offered up evidence to disprove any specific make or model until now.
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She shared a story from a local TV station that tried to disprove recent reporting that Roy Moore was banned from the local Alabama mall over his alleged attraction to teenagers.
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The extradition trial does not aim to prove or disprove the United States' allegations against Meng, only to determine whether - if true - the allegations meet the Canadian standard required for extradition.
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Fifty-six percent disprove of Trump's showing instead, and Monday's results mark an 28500-point drop in Trump's approval rating since the president's 6900 percent last month in the same poll.
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He hinted again that he had tapes of his private talks with the former F.B.I. chief that would disprove Mr. Comey's account, but declined to confirm the existence of any recordings.
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Also, if successful, the Anable Basin project could disprove the notion that luxury housing hurts industrial neighborhoods because it eats up land that could be used for factories, Ms. Glen added.
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Fruman, a Belorussian American living in Florida, worked alongside PARNAS to dig up material that could both disprove Russia's involvement in the 20163 US election and damage BIDEN's chances in 22016.
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Producer: Somebody tried to disprove on YouTube that bullets couldn&apost hit people if they were going through water because —Mark Billingham: I&aposve seen people shot in the f------ water.
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"It's the gift that keeps on giving," said Senator James M. Inhofe, an Oklahoma Republican who once brought a snowball to the Senate floor in an effort to disprove climate change.
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He granted the 30-minute interview to Reuters, including a tour of his suite, partly to disprove rumors about mistreatment and that he had been moved from the hotel to a prison.
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In an ideal world, rationality would always trump irrationality, and because of that, any time an irrational thought entered my head, I'd immediately be able to disprove it and push it away.
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Though it's interesting to note that Miller was not reported missing for nine days after the Norseman crashed, there is no credible evidence to disprove that Miller went down with his flight.
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One problem with tracking happiness is that it is such a vague metric: it is difficult to prove or disprove Gallup's numbers since it is not entirely clear what is being measured.
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The YouTube clips provided are intended to disprove that theory — but couldn't they just be playing the recorded audio back while holding a phone over the tattoo, no ground-breaking "technology" necessary?
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It happens to be one of the seven Millennium Prize Problems, meaning The Clay Mathematics Institute of Cambridge, Massachusetts will award $1 million to whoever manages to prove or disprove the statement.
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While TESS doesn't yet have enough planets in its statistics bin to confirm or disprove the Fulton gap, the trend has continued, and astronomers say they don't expect the gap to disappear.
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But it would take decades to disprove the theories that Jensen died from drugs, a fact Prokop himself wouldn't concede until the 1990s, by which point the damage had long been done.
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The calendar doesn't directly prove or disprove anything, but it does provide some insight into Kavanaugh's life in high school at Georgetown Prep, an elite all-boys private school in Bethesda, Maryland.
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"The commission is not set up to prove or disprove President Trump's claim," Kobach said Wednesday on CNN before his voter fraud panel convenes for its first meeting later in the day.
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"I don't think we're going to see a bitcoin ETF anytime soon because it's hard for an asset manager like Bitwise and others to be able to disprove a negative," Rosenbluth said.
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After the election, the memos, still being supplemented by his inquiries, became one of Washington's worst-kept secrets, as reporters — including from The New York Times — scrambled to confirm or disprove them.
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But a hundred people telling a thousand lies quickly exhaust the ability of news outlets to disprove each claim, and of citizens to keep track of all the real and invented scandals.
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As he got better and better at the mechanical part of ghost hunting — the photography — he discovered that good photography was precisely what skeptics used to disprove the physical existence of ghosts.
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The cherry on top was my all-girls high school, where the fantasy of a genderless meritocracy seemed achievable in my lifetime, if only because there weren't any boys around to disprove it.
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Akzo Chief Executive Ton Buechner argued that, regardless of the touted 50 percent premium to the target's undisturbed price, a tie-up would be harmful for stakeholders – something that's hard to disprove conclusively.
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There are thousands of true believers there, amateur cosmologists with their free copies of Windows Movie Maker, each of them certain that they've managed to single-handedly disprove 20 centuries of accepted science.
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While there is no way to prove or disprove if this was actually his page or not, a source told NK News that Jong Nam had used the account frequently up until 2015.
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"There is no objective evidence either to disprove the statements of the accused or to prove the statements of the female witness," the prosecutor's office in Potsdam, southwest of Berlin, wrote in a statement.
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They include carmakers, increasingly eager to disprove their dirty reputations by ramping up production of electric vehicles to meet fleet-wide emission curbs and demonstrate their prowess to low-carbon competitors such as Tesla.
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But Kyrgios, described by none other than American former world number one John McEnroe as the greatest talent he has seen in the last 10 years, is doing his best to disprove that theory.
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The new clearings might also make it possible for the USF researchers to investigate beyond the 27 anomalies and either prove or disprove community rumors of other illicit burials on school grounds, Meyer said.
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"The only way to really disprove the intent is to vigorously monitor all the listings on your site, taking down any listings or ads that may be related to the sex trade," he writes.
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At 1612 GMT it was up 0.8% at 7,874.. There was no obvious reason for the sudden rise with the opacity of cryptocurrency markets rendering it virtually impossible to prove or disprove any theories.
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"The effectiveness of the single insult is that it costs far less to assert than to disprove," said Ben Labe, a Ph.D. candidate in economics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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The assertion is impossible to disprove, but it's unlikely that 10,000 troops remaining in Iraq would have made much of a difference — especially in Syria and Libya, where the United States never had troops.
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The I.R.S. can observe all the transactions between A, B and C on the Bitcoin blockchain, but it cannot disprove that B and C are "arm's length" counterparties (that is, independent and not colluding).
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Happer was on the board of another research organization that funded studies which tried to disprove the effects of climate change that took $715,000 from ExxonMobil between 1998 and 2015, according to the Guardian.
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By virtue of being the Republican nominee, news outlets are forced to give Trump airtime, and it is very hard to disprove a dedicated serial liar on air if he just commits to their falsehoods.
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She noted that the researchers didn't have scientific hypothesis or treatment they were attempting to prove or disprove, and instead were basically just trying to see what would happen if they edited a crucial gene.
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The near-term growth rates are likely to be negatively impacted and the company will need to disprove investor skepticism about its capability to brand build, Morgan Stanley analyst Brian Nowak said in a note.
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A site called Hoaxmap, which launched in February of last year, maps instances of false reporting on alleged crimes committed by refugees across Germany, and includes police statements or other news reports that disprove them.
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She claims the statements in the WSJ are false, that Theranos had supplied over 22018,25 pages of documentation that disprove the allegations, and that she is disappointed to see that the piece has been published.
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Washington (CNN)The Trump administration's new "election integrity" commission "is not set up to prove or to disprove" President Donald Trump's unsubstantiated claims of widespread voter fraud, according to the vice chair of the commission.
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DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran's Revolutionary Guards said on Friday they would release images to disprove U.S. President Donald Trump's assertion that the U.S. Navy has destroyed an Iranian drone in the Gulf, Iranian news agencies reported.
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Koulmey's attorneys showed the jury the restaurant's security footage, which seemed to disprove that theory: He was clearly seen "[looking] left and right to make sure no one is watching him" before throwing his entree.
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What gave our stories their potency - and what so enraged the Duterte administration - was our use of the Philippine police's own data, mainly in the form of crime reports, to undermine and disprove official claims.
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It said its investigation in Haiti, where prostitution is illegal and the legal age of consent is 18, was not able to prove or disprove allegations that some of the Haitians hired were under 18.
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In a phone interview last week with CNBC, Misra said he needs the benefit of time to disprove his critics and vindicate the Vision Fund's big money bets across the global tech start-up market.
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It wasn't immediately clear who originally made the edited clip, which mocked a segment of Cuomo's show earlier this week that sought to disprove Trump's defense against a key impeachment witness's testimony to lawmakers. pic.twitter.
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I believe she has become a weapon in the culture wars, deployed to disprove the lived experiences of discrimination of thousands and thousands of women of color across the country, disempowering them in the process.
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Chief of staff John Kelly -- hoping to disprove the endless headlines declaring the West Wing was in chaos -- was furious when Trump discarded his suggestion to make the announcement during a traditional White House ceremony.
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Ergo if Trump or his supporters suggest something or declare something it becomes the Dems' very mission in life--to disprove or poke holes in that statement to score a pyrrhic victory of the soul.
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When rumors surfaced that Olivia Newton-John was on her deathbed last month after her third bout of breast cancer, the 70-year-old Australian singer took to social media to cheerfully disprove the hearsay.
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These are some of the questions wafting through the Hollywood air in the lead-up to the Academy Awards, which will go on, hostless, steeped in controversies and ready to prove (or disprove) your predictions.
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I think the B80 would look great on my mess of a desk, a small shimmering beacon in a forest of boxes and papers which overwhelmingly disprove that I'm responsible with my things, physical or digital.
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The LHCb folks are excited about the possibility of a new particle and hope that they'll have the statistics to either prove or disprove these results soon, maybe even in the next six months, said Vagnoni.
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More fundamentally, even when there aren't enough data to disprove a neutral-theory null model, it doesn't mean that natural selection isn't happening, said Rebekah Rogers, an evolutionary geneticist at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte.
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The law does mean, however, that prosecutors may have to disprove a "stand your ground" defense, following revisions to the Florida statute last year that put the burden of proof on prosecutors instead of the defense.
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But it was not lost on his handlers that such a promise helped blunt criticism of Reagan being somewhat less than a strong supporter of equal opportunities for women, something he would repeatedly disprove as president.
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Naïvely, race seemed irrelevant to me until my squad leader said that it would be harder to disprove the rumor and "repair my reputation" because I was white and the male Marine in question was black.
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In the general election, he will try to disprove the proposition that the only way a Democrat can win statewide in Alabama is if his opponent gets evicted from office twice and makes passes at teenagers.
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In trying to disprove a link between the father's powerful position and the son's surprising success, Hunter Biden's lawyers claim he did not take an equity stake in BHR Partners until after Joe Biden left office.
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The training relies mainly on the types of shooting simulations used by Correll and other researchers to test cops, but the training sessions are redeveloped to purposely disprove stereotypes against race, gender, age, and other factors.
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Attempting to confirm or disprove the alleged link between CQ and CFIF, Gizmodo initiated its own review of the API data logs last week, focusing on comments from dozens of people who claim they were impersonated online.
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DUBAI, July 19 (Reuters) - Iran's Revolutionary Guards said on Friday they would release images to disprove U.S. President Donald Trump's assertion that the U.S. Navy has destroyed an Iranian drone in the Gulf, Iranian news agencies reported.
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POTUS is on the attack because passages from Comey's new book, "A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies and Leadership," just came out ... and one includes Comey's claim Trump asked him to disprove the so-called Christopher Steele dossier.
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He was widely criticized as appearing not to sympathize with Epstein's victims and for relying on alibis such as a meal at Pizza Express and an apparent inability to sweat in an attempt to disprove Giuffre's claim.
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The actress worked relentlessly to disprove common misconceptions about bipolar disorder, namely that it was a disease people "invented" or could easily cure themselves: Fisher's courage came after a long period of denial, projection and self-reflection.
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Popper argues that in science it is not possible to "prove" anything; rather, scientists seek to theorize all the possible explanations for a phenomenon, and then seek evidence to disprove as many of those explanations as possible.
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Neither of these hypotheses comes close to being proven wrong (or right) by the Broaden trial, any more than a failed aspirin trial would disprove the notion that a headache is at least partly a neurochemical event.
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In answering Collins' question about whether there was evidence of potential collusion between Trump and Russian group on social media, Facebook said it "does not believe it is in a position to substantiate or disprove" such allegations.
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Last year, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) scientists published a paper in Science, discrediting the theory of a "global warming hiatus," which is favored among climate change deniers to "disprove" the existence of man-made atmospheric effects.
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This wouldn't disprove Apple's allegations — that Qualcomm is inappropriately forcing it to agree to onerous licenses — but it could encourage the company to stand down, if it looks like the legal battle could ultimately cause costs to rise.
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Alice Bender, head of nutrition programs for AICR, said there will always be studies that disprove or prove links -- but when you look at the whole body of research, there is a scientific consensus on this particular point.
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Even so, Punnett says he was able to disprove that theory with his book, based on transcripts from the original trial, the docket of witnesses and notes from Denardt's defense attorneys that he came upon in his research.
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U.S. District Judge Katherine Forrest on Tuesday said the case is appropriate for class treatment because the facts that will ultimately prove or disprove the claims about the plans' management are the same for every individual class member.
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That in itself doesn't give the allegation more credibility — Trump's trip was high-profile and had been public knowledge years before Steele began his research — but, inconveniently for Trump, it makes it impossible to conclusively disprove the allegation.
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MILAN (Reuters) - It would be hard to disprove the case for a high-speed rail link between Italy and France, Italy's economy undersecretary Massimo Garavaglia said on Monday in an interview with the daily Il Corriere della Sera.
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The Duke of York was also slammed for not appearing sympathetic to Epstein&aposs victims and for his attempts, including an alibi of a Pizza Express party and an apparent inability to sweat, to disprove Giuffre&aposs allegation.
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"Unfortunately, I cannot disprove something that never happened, but I can tell you that these allegations, if true, would have been reported to the cops, the DA, or another law enforcement agency," Miccarelli wrote in the Facebook post.
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Not only does it establish that the pattern of lying and obfuscation is ongoing, but it reveals that there was at least one more person at the meeting who could corroborate (or disprove) the story about what happened.
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But based on the latest season four trailer, Brooker and an all-star team of writers, directors, and actors—including Jodie Foster, Letitia Wright, and Breaking Bad's Jesse Plemons—will be doing their best to disprove that idea.
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I don't think we're fully Weekend at Bernies-level of disinformation yet, but I will admit that airing a video of him in the same outfit he was in weeks ago isn't doing anything to disprove that one.
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Ever an eye on domestic political trends, the president responded that spring by starting what would become a yearlong campaign to not only "sell" his Southeast Asia policy, but also disprove accusations of a stalemated war in Vietnam.
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It's like a Hail Mary pass that can somehow defeat his enemies in the media and intelligence agencies, disprove the story that there are questions about the legitimacy of his election and restore the luster of his presidency.
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Maybe Odyssey will prove or disprove some of his wackier accounts of historical events and he'll serve a similar role to Charles Dickens in Syndicate, who was inspired by the player's adventures to write some of his stories.
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BuzzFeed News decided to publish the dossier, with appropriate context and caveats, for two related reasons, and only after we had spent weeks with reporters in the United States and Europe trying to confirm or disprove specific claims.
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Just as the men whom Skalnik leveled outrageous claims against over the years had faced accusations that were maddeningly difficult to disprove, prosecutors found themselves on the defensive, scrambling to discredit what Skalnik claimed was the honest truth.
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Finding had been 'curiously under-studied' Scientists have long known the stones came from the Preseli Hills, but the new research helps disprove claims about the original rock locations made in 1923 by famous British geologist H.H. Thomas.
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People living near the plant have unusually high rates of cancer, thyroid disease and other health problems and have raised questions about a link to open burns, but so far there's little evidence to prove or disprove this.
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Whatever their other differences, just about every response to the Trump situation is based on the idea that Britain is a good and open and harmonious place, something you can easily disprove by going outside on a rainy Tuesday.
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"NFLX remains one of our top picks, and while the competition/price increase-related churn 'wall of worry' could take a few quarters to disprove, we think it presents a good buying opportunity," J.P. Morgan analyst Doug Anmuth said.
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Not only are her competitors keen to disprove her status as a favorite, she also has to deal with the weight of expectation after winning the K-1 world championship in 2014 - not to mention her parents' sporting pedigree.
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"[The] Bottom line is that in a study like this where there are many parameters to adjust (especially when predicting events that took place millions of years ago) we can never robustly prove (or disprove) the results," Milisavljevic said.
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Design studio VT Pro is out to disprove this with its new work, Reach, an interactive installation that uses sophisticated digital and mechanical design to create a "living wall" that responds to the actions of viewers who approach it.
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DJI has denied any wrongdoing, and it recently commissioned a security report in an effort to disprove rumors that the company is sending user data to Beijing, as the Department of Homeland Security has in the past expressed its doubts.
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Kavanaugh's lawyers argued that the calendar does not show a party consistent with what Ford described, according to the New York Times, adding that the entries don't disprove her allegations as there may have been a party Kavanaugh didn't write down.
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The theories claimed the pizzeria's basement was the site of the trafficking, so when the owner announced the pizzeria didn't have a basement, that ordinary detail didn't disprove the theory, it became unspeakably sinister, one more sign of a cover-up.
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A win for Hillary Clinton with Latinos would bolster her standing as the preferred candidate among one of the party's most important constituencies, while a victory for Bernie Sanders would disprove the argument that his appeal does not extend to minorities.
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If the BMA really wanted to change things, it would seek to disprove this argument by polling voters to establish where spending should be cut, or taxes raised, to pay for the seven-day NHS for which they have voted.
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While some humanists decisively do or do not believe in a god, an agnostic approach to god is in keeping with humanism because it dictates that it is impossible to prove or disprove the existence of god through science alone.
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Against prophecies of despair, Pinker wants to "restate the ideals of the Enlightenment in the language and concepts of the twenty-first century," using a slew of evidence to disprove the populists and intellectuals and fire up new rounds of progress.
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If you can prove or disprove its cryptically…Read more ReadThe AGC didn't have a processor inside as we know it, but it instead used around 5,600 electronic gates that allowed it to perform roughly 40,13.83 simple mathematical additions every second.
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Part of that dispute is trying to prove (or disprove) whether there is a direct link between exposure to repeated hits to the head absorbed in games like tackle football and the development of cognitive and neurological problems later in life.
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Last week, the Trump administration caused confusion after declaring that the aircraft carrier was heading toward the Sea of Japan, only to have photos disprove that by showing the strike force in the Sunda Strait, thousands of miles from North Korea.
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The agency's memo does not, however, disprove Democrats' allegations that Trump abused his power by trying to pressure a foreign nation to investigate a political rival or that he obstructed justice by impeding an investigation into his actions, the Post reports.
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Similar groups are being created from Finland to the Czech Republic to disprove online hoaxes, state agencies are improving online security to counter potential hacking attacks and European news media outlets are expanding fact-checking teams to counter false reports.
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Or they'll reiterate that the ups and downs of daily weather aren't the same as broader long-term shifts in the Earth's climate, and that a single cold day can't disprove global warming anymore than a single hot day proves it.
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It was like that all night: The candidates never took the bait Obama set up for them, to disprove they are doing anything but "peddling fiction," that his agenda—addressing economic inequality, immigration reform, and energy regulations—has left Americans worse off.
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The second is harder to disprove but certainly indicates that Trump may not understand that a large swath of the public genuinely doesn't agree with him about immigration — not just the governments of "sanctuary cities," but the people who elect those governments.
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Most recently, Trump called Carter "sloppy" in a tweet after the editor revealed that the presidential hopeful has been sending the editor pictures of his hands for decades in an effort to disprove Carter's claim that Trump is a "short-fingered vulgarian."
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With the Daphne series, we hope to disprove the oft-cited "roadblocks" used to scapegoat gender disparities in dance lineups by showing that gender parity is not only possible, but it also requires no compromise in the quality or success of the club.
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The bishop of Norwich, Graham James, who said he had spoken to Archbishop Welby several times in recent days, told BBC Radio 5 Live that the archbishop had agreed to the test to disprove the claim that Mr. Browne was his father.
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The Middle debuted a little over a year after Sarah Palin's famous "We grow good people in our small towns" speech at the 2008 Republican National Convention, a statement she seemed to spend the rest of that presidential campaign trying to disprove.
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Kayla Moore has been active about discrediting the accusations, often using her personal Facebook page as a place where she writes and shares unconfirmed posts from unverified blogs that aim to disprove the reports, as well as promotes her husband's senatorial campaign.
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Neither the calendar nor the affidavits prove or disprove the cases that Dr. Blasey or Judge Kavanaugh have sought to advance, but Democratic senators are likely to use the calendar to question how truthful Judge Kavanaugh has been about his younger days.
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The harder you try to disprove theories about satanists or the Deep State to people already convinced that you're in on the conspiracy—or are sympathetic to the evil them—the more likely believers are to respond to your debunk with obstinance.
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Before leaving Congress, Rohrabacher had said he was looking to disprove that Russia had colluded with the Trump campaign in the 2016 election, and establish that Assange had told him that Russia had not been the source of the Wikileaks DNC emails.
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Even in the most controlled setting, Twitter's bias charges are difficult for Dorsey to swat away — in part because it's hard to disprove a negative and in part because there is plenty of ammunition for conservatives who want to make bad-faith arguments.
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The fact that she appeared in a video for the Washington Post doesn't necessarily disprove that story: The woman wearing the Zardulu robe and mask for that interview could easily have been a single representative of the group, or someone they hired.
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So Kavanaugh did what any normal person would do when trying to disprove accusations of sexual assault: he produced his calendar from the summer of 2003, which he still has, so that you can see that he did not commit any potential crimes.
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And in 2011, Persky presided over a high-profile gang rape civil lawsuit, during which he allowed the defense to introduce photos of the plaintiff scantily dressed in order to disprove her claim that she suffered from PTSD as a result of the alleged assault.
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The Clinton campaign and the DNC have understandably refused to set the precedent of having to confirm the authenticity of leaked documents, and it should not fall to the victim of this crime to have to prove or disprove each and every new leak.
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Hoffman occupies the role of elder statesman to the young protagonist of the film, William Miller (Patrick Fugit), who, besides having the most vanilla byline in rock journalism, will lean on his steward's advice as much as he will attempt to disprove his admonitions.
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MOSCOW, Jan 23 (Reuters) - Russia showed foreign military attaches and journalists a cruise missile system on Wednesday that the United States says breaches a Cold War-era arms control pact, its latest attempt to disprove an allegation it denies and stop Washington quitting the treaty.
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Ron Davis, who until earlier this year headed the Justice Department's Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS), which works with departments to review their policies, said activists, cops, and experts can argue all they want over the best way to prove or disprove bias.
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Check out a wrap of some of the Wall Street opinions from Wednesday night and Thursday morning, including DiClemente and Sandler: The 22018m DAU net-adds were not strong enough to disprove the "Facebook Is crushing Snapchat" thesis, which we think persists for a while.
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Explaining how researchers are selected to work on his family's collection, Mr Green draws a distinction between scholars who seek after facts and those who try too hard to prove or disprove the Bible—a step that he calls "crossing a line of faith".
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"The treasure hunt nature continues to drive new interest, new people and more visits by current customers", said Brian Yarbrough, an analyst with Edward Jones, adding that the company's products, prices, and inventory management disprove the notion that TJX needs a bigger online presence.
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" Noting that she said you "gotta' have faith the Trump team knows all this," she said she'd be "the first" to say that the concerns are "unfounded" once the terms of the deal are made public, if those terms disprove her allegation of "crony capitalism.
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"The credibility argument is simply an easy (and hard to disprove) way for elites to sell the foreign policy they're most interested in to the American people, whether that's domino theory, primacy, or intervention in some conflict," Emma Ashford of the Cato Institute pointed out.
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"The Report" follows a Senate staffer (Adam Driver), whose efforts to disprove the efficacy of "enhanced interrogation techniques" are encouraged by his boss, Dianne Feinstein (Annette Bening), but thwarted by nearly everyone else in government, whether the president is George W. Bush or Barack Obama.
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For Stock Markets, January Is a Cloudy Crystal Ball | The Stock Trader's Almanac first posited that January markets could foretell the direction of the trading year, but statistics experts say causation is impossible to prove — or disprove, James B. Stewart writes in the Common Sense column.
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The ensuing five years was to not only disprove the idea of a quick and easy victory for the good guys, but also challenged America's idea of itself as a force for good in a world in which things were no longer so black and white.
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As the Mercury News noted, Walsh's rulings clear the way for the case to move into the discovery phase, when the plaintiffs and Google will be able to request internal documents from the other side to try and prove or disprove the merits of the allegations.
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The two decided that part of their intention as editors would be to disprove the idea that theorizing is meant solely for academics, and contribute to a long (but largely unacknowledged) tradition of theorizing by trans and gender nonconforming people about their own lives and futures.
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Researchers and medical marijuana advocates have pointed out that keeping marijuana in the restrictive Schedule I category creates a sort of catch-22, where scientists can't definitively prove or disprove the drug's efficacy in treating certain conditions because of the difficulties they face in conducting clinical research.
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And Comey has given everyone an excuse to talk about the pee tape again—in his book, he writes that the president asked him to prove disprove the allegation because Trump thought there might be a "one percent" chance his wife would think it was real.
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"With the Daphne series, we hope to disprove the oft-cited "roadblocks" used to scapegoat gender disparities in dance lineups by showing that gender parity is not only possible, but it also requires no compromise in the quality or success of the club," the club said.
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The problem is, no matter how easily reporters and experts can disprove Trump's statements, a portion of the president's base will believe him over all other evidence—that's how you got a poll from 2017 finding that a quarter of registered voters believed his nonsensical voter fraud claims.
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It was neither strong enough to disprove fears of a weakening economy, nor weak enough to confirm with certainty the Federal Reserve may have to cut interest rates at its October meeting, in a measure to boost growth, said Thomas Simons, an economist and senior vice president at Jefferies.
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Ancient Tomes Were Unearthed To get a grasp on the thinking and language of the period, Mr. Eggers pored over books, church pamphlets from Cotton Mather, "The Discoverie of Witchcraft" (a 16th-century text that aims to disprove the existence of witches) and various sermons from Puritan ministers.
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This isn't proof of causality, but many of the complicating factors that would disprove a causal relationship — say, the possibility that people in rural areas are both likelier to own guns and likelier to be depressed — don't check out; depression actually isn't higher in rural areas, for example.
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Officers who were witnesses were placed on the investigation team, lead detectives were uncooperative, the department launched a "counter-investigation" to disprove her case and officers created notes after the case was launched and gave them to the defense months before they were provided to the state, she alleged.
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"If CEFC does not disprove satisfactorily news of major economic problems of the group and clearly explain the reasons of the alleged prosecution of its senior official, the completion of the long-prepared transaction for entry to J&T Finance Group is unacceptable," J&T said in a statement.
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Clinton considered directing her resources to other states, but after the close call in Iowa she decided to take a serious run at New Hampshire in hopes of pulling off another upset in a place where voters helped her disprove polling data and surprise then-Senator Barack Obama in 2008.
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The result, before any actual results, was a muddle of campaign claims and counterclaims about momentum that may or may not exist, with candidates swaggering about their performance before any full data set existed to disprove it and their supporters trading conspiracy theories about the cause of the reporting delay.
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"Gaia is still observing, and we calculated in its final data release there will be enough data to confirm or disprove the existence of Proxima c," Fabio Del Sordo, a co-author of the paper and an astrophysicist at the University of Crete in Greece, told Business Insider via email.
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On Thursday, the Democrats tried to disprove Mr. Trump's claims that he was merely trying to root out corruption in Ukraine when he sought to enlist officials in that country to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden, who served on the board of a Ukrainian energy company.
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He compares Trump's need for loyalty to that of a mob boss, claims that Trump repeatedly asked him to disprove lewd claims about him that surfaced in the so-called Steele dossier, and repeated the accusation that Trump told him to back off an investigation into former national security adviser Michael Flynn.
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Feldstein followed up with a turn in Whitney Cummings' The Female Brain as an assistant to a scientist trying to disprove stereotypes about women, a beloved part in Greta Gerwig's Lady Bird (which gave birth to her much-quoted line about "the titular role"), and made her Broadway debut as Minnie Fay in Hello Dolly!
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Trump has bigger things to worry about, and so do I." Kelly added to Access Hollywood, "I don't need to be overly tough to prove that I am some sort of tough gal and I don't want to go easy on him to disprove the people who think I have it in for him.
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The experiment was intended to disprove a fundamental contention of metaphysical realism — that objects and relationships in the world exist independently of how we perceive them; in other words, that the world we see and hear is not the one that actually is, and that therefore, our brains are perception machines untethered to reality.
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The memory of this exchange now has inspired an exhibition that Mr. Glimcher hopes will "disprove the prevalent interpretation" by many critics, collectors and viewers that Rothko's brilliantly colored paintings of the 4.53s were sunny and joyous, while his darker-palette works in the 1960s reflected his progressing depression and foreshadowed his suicide in 1970.
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The real power of school portraits, to me, is that we so often spend much of our lives attempting to disprove what we imagined they said about us — that we were weird or didn't understand humidity or couldn't use a flatiron or move about the world in the way in which we would like.
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"These findings neither prove nor disprove the existence of gender disparity, but these results nevertheless might sensitize patients and their caretakers to potential sex differences, especially when it comes to initiating kidney replacement therapy," said Dr. Manfred Hecking, senior author of the study and associate professor of internal medicine at the Medical University of Vienna.
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If a Republican member of Congress does speak to a colleague or a staffer on climate change, it is significantly more likely to be in the context of climate change (or, as Republican members prefer to call it, global warming) protests in Washington being canceled because of snow -- which may not disprove climate change, but certainly makes Republicans laugh.
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In Senate hearings, Democrats generally want to push the idea that President Obama's (and therefore the Democratic Party's) narrative and strategies are correct, while Republicans want to disprove the notion that the president and his party are right about anything whatsoever, and convincingly demonstrate that Obama and his foolishness will doom the world to anarchy and ruin.
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Sanders in a news release said the caucus was launched, in part, to disprove President TrumpDonald John TrumpFacebook releases audit on conservative bias claims Harry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Recessions happen when presidents overlook key problems MORE's recent claim that Democrats are trying to slash Social Security.
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A federal agency tweeted Tuesday that winter storms don't disprove climate change, hours after President TrumpDonald John TrumpFacebook releases audit on conservative bias claims Harry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Recessions happen when presidents overlook key problems MORE seemed to imply the opposite in a tweet.
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Jay Sean, Birdman, and Lil Wayne, To the Sky , 2010 Continuing the week of talking about Lil Wayne's chart hits, I would like to disprove something I said on Monday, which is that Wayne having over a hundred Hot 100 entries means that there are literally a hundred songs that are more well known than his mixtape freestyles.
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Barring the unlikely event of the ghost of Jane Austen appearing and proclaiming, "HELENA KELLY WAS RIGHT ABOUT EVERYTHING; I DID INTEND FOR THE CABINET SCENE IN NORTHANGER ABBEY TO BE READ AS A MASTURBATION SCENE," there is no way to prove or disprove any critic's opinions about how Austen might have wanted her readers to approach her books.
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Kim Dong-yub, a defense analyst at the Seoul-based Institute for Far Eastern Studies of Kyungnam University, said that North Korea would probably try to disprove skeptics in the West over its ability to strike long-range targets by firing its Hwasong-14 intercontinental ballistic missile over Japan and farther into the Pacific — but without a nuclear payload.
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So when rumors swirl that the White House wants to improve relations with the Kremlin not because they see an opportunity for a mutually beneficial deal with Russia, but because some members of the administration are in thrall to Russian intelligence services, and the administration fails time and time again to disprove those allegations, confidence in the U.S. erodes.
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Francis's words are part of a wider trend on the part of Christian faith leaders worldwide, who have overwhelmingly come out to disprove the idea — set forth by Attorney General Jeff Sessions last week and later defended by White House press secretary Sarah Sanders — that a Bible verse, Romans 13, legitimizes the Trump administration's immigration policies.
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When looking at human history over the course of thousands of years, it wouldn't be difficult to cherry-pick events which support such a theory at the expense of all the other major events which might disprove it, just as the linkage of solar events with the history of ISIS was only a close approximation, ignoring several large solar flares and battles.
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I think instead we need a third solution: a way to exit (whether to the cloud for purely digital technologies, or to a Special Innovation Zone or ultimately a startup nation), prove/disprove these new technologies among a self-selected, opt-in group of risk-tolerant early adopters, and report back to the mothership on what works and what doesn't.
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"Anything he associated with the intel community, he rejected pretty much out of hand because his sense was that the 'Deep State' had decided in some star chamber or secret meeting that they would feed intelligence to him that would cause him to make mistakes, and disprove a lot of his theories about what happened in the election," the person said.
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And the Texas Tribune reported that one asylum-seeker had agreed to be removed voluntarily "out of desperation" because he was told he'd be reunited with his daughter if he did — a claim that Department of Homeland Security officials were unable to verify or disprove without getting the man's name or case number (which the Texas Tribune declined to provide).
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Trump told Comey that he wanted an investigation to disprove the tape because the rumors bothered first lady Melania TrumpMelania TrumpEx-Melania Trump adviser raised concerns of excessive inauguration spending weeks before events: CNN The Hill's Morning Report - Trump moves green cards, citizenship away from poor, low-skilled White House seeks volunteers, musicians for Christmas celebrations MORE, according to the FBI chief's new book.
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I suppose the worry underlying all these calculated evasions is that a story of, say, a woman fabricating a rape, or someone using a gun to stop a home invasion, or a Muslim being the perpetrator of a mass killing, will be used to undermine larger, more important truths, like the Republican senator Jim Inhofe tossing a snowball on the Senate floor to "disprove" climate change.
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According to Craig, an ex-shooter with an intimate knowledge of the industry — who asked for his real name to be withheld because he still has close friends who shoot — many of the industry's counter-arguments to evidence of mistreatment are reliant on technicalities and claims that are deliberately hard to disprove, such as saying the distress documented in birds was due to the evidence gathering method, not the conditions.
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It's still pretty shocking how ugly and strange this can all get—consider that this week saw both the publishing of a plummy 12,000-word encomium to the college football work ethic of a serial rapist currently serving 263 years in prison and the best-paid personalities of a cable sports channel engaging in a flabby but concerted effort to disprove decades of epidemic sexual misconduct in the University of Tennessee's athletic department.
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In a tell-all book set for release on Tuesday, Comey writes that Trump wanted him to disprove allegations he had a salacious encounter with prostitutes in Moscow, in an effort to reassure his wife, Melania TrumpMelania TrumpEx-Melania Trump adviser raised concerns of excessive inauguration spending weeks before events: CNN The Hill's Morning Report - Trump moves green cards, citizenship away from poor, low-skilled White House seeks volunteers, musicians for Christmas celebrations MORE.
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"And we better understand the ramifications because if they can take down a woman of stature like [Democratic presidential nominee] Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonTop Sanders adviser: Warren isn't competing for 'same pool of voters' Anti-Trump vets join Steyer group in pressing Democrats to impeach Trump Republicans plot comeback in New Jersey MORE with bogus stuff and then you have to disprove the negative to make it somehow or another truthful, you cannot," Brazile said.
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Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) on Sunday turned the tables on Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE in an attempt to disprove the Republican presidential nominee's claim that President Obama is the founder of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS).
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Facebook informed Congress in newly released documents that it could not prove or disprove collusion between President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE's campaign and Russians who may have used the online platform to try to sway opinions during the 85033 presidential campaign.
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