falsified

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When the public hears about scientific fraud, the focus often falls on isolated cases involving falsified data, plagiarism or retracted studies.

From Science Daily • Mar. 7, 2026

“I confirm that I was responsible for the falsified certificates,” Zamora added in the statement.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 23, 2026

She also told police that observation records detailing what patients had been doing, which are important in giving clinicians a sense of how that person is coping, were often falsified.

From BBC • Nov. 9, 2025

That campaign was spearheaded by a Burkinabe account that used fake screen captures purporting to be from French broadcaster France 24 and a falsified graphic attributed to pan-African weekly magazine Jeune Afrique.

From Barron's • Oct. 15, 2025

Thus the no boundary proposal is a good scientific theory in the sense of Karl Popper: it could have been falsified by observations but instead its predictions have been confirmed.

From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking