"Any suggestion, inference, or innuendo that implies that IMP's treatment of patients with prostate cancer is based on anything other than the best interests and personal choice of each, individual patient is blatantly false, " he wrote.

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He is wrong on all counts and, as with other false alarms about the hazards of genetic engineering sounded in recent years, there is both more and less to the Benbrook story than meets the eye.

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The other crucial part is you want as few false positives as possible.

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In England, on the other hand, the burden is in exactly the opposite direction: the offending speech is presumed to be false, and it is up to the defendant to prove that it is in fact true.

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You are saying that Notre Dame does everything the same way as every other prominent college program, but that is patently false based on your own previous statement.

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Siskind, a founding partner at the law firm Harvey Siskind LLP in San Francisco, who isn't involved in the case, says if Macy's doesn't win the case under the doctrines of trademark law, it is possible the retailer may be able to win the case on other grounds, such as unfair competition or false advertising.

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Yet this effort is based on a false premise: that freeing trade is good for you only if other countries do the same.

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The government's core allegation is that Mr Skilling used accounting trickery, false public statements and other devices to inflate Enron's share price, thereupon cashing in his share options.

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