McErlean admitted making a false claim to an insurance company to claim death benefit.
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And you concluded that refuting a false claim can actually reinforce the belief in the original false statement.
But his answer offers a troubling false claim about a lack of scientific consensus: the consensus is rock solid.
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This may not be a lie, or a literally false claim, but it is completely misleading and decreases rather than increases understanding.
It's a false claim that seizes on unfair stereotypes and stigmas of the unemployed, in the classic vein of blaming and punishing the victim.
Judging from what has happened with the False Claim Act, Dodd-Frank whistleblower suits will likely mainly concern accounting fraud at companies that file with the SEC.
The colonel was himself investigated, after a false claim that he had mistreated civilians and prisoners of war in Iraq, and was later cleared of any wrongdoing.
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Rachel Maddow had the decency to retract the same false claim on her blog, as did Bonnie Kavoussi (a little less snarkily) at The Huffington Post.
And the ones who want to believe in the false claim, when they hear this correction, what they're doing is thinking of all the reasons it might not be true.
In staking this false claim, as it did with the Shaba Farms on Mount Dov in the Golan Heights in 2000, Lebanon is setting up a casus belli against Israel.
The lawsuit alleged Wrigley, which spent millions of dollars on advertising its Eclipse brand with the allegedly false claim, was able to charge a price premium for the product and eventually elevated Eclipse gum into one of the top sellers in the product category.
The lawsuits, which have been denounced by the company as "completely false", claim to be based on inside information.
Obama has rejected that claim as a false allegation intended to scare people.
The Trustee makes no attempt to substantiate or support his unfounded claim that JPMorgan earned extraordinary sums from the Madoff account, and that claim is demonstrably false.
The report's authors claim this is a false analogy, arguing that many working class children don't have a realistic choice of benefitting from a grammar school education.
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Or they claim credit based on the false belief that their role on the team was more important than reality would dictate.
While not necessarily false, that is a very much bolder claim than most of its advocates appear to understand.
News Corp. long said the wrongdoing at the News of the World was isolated to those two individuals a claim the company later admitted was false.
"The Daulton et al claim that we have misidentified diamonds is false and misleading, " he said.
Mr. El Baradei made a public fuss last week about one British-U.S. claim that turns out to have been false, but which was in any case peripheral to Iraq's weapons of mass destruction.
Giardino dismissed a state claim that the company and Cunningham engaged in false advertising.
The records also suggest that Kuo's claim to have been clean up until this year is false.
But Mr Berlusconi's claim that the left was inextricably tied to judges levelling false charges put an end to that.
Taylor, who is also former vice-president of the British Board of Film Classification and Chancellor of Bournemouth University, said it had been a common practice among peers to claim for fake journeys and enter expenses claims with a false address as a main residence, and he believed it was acceptable to do this provided there was a "family connection" with the property.
European politicians will claim that Greece is a unique case but they have made far too many false claims in the past to be considered credible.
No country can claim that it is immune to the infiltration of those people, especially if they use false names that are different from the names provided for the security authorities.
The SEC looked into it and determined that the statements were false but that did not stop the company from issuing another press release on September 27th stating the same claim.
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That will leave the field clear for the Lib Dems to claim that what matters to parents is improving standards in the classroom rather than structural upheaval and the false promise of choice.
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