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.
Though journalist Abdiaziz Ibrahim interviewed the woman but never filed a story, authorities also found him guilty of fabricating a false claim, according to rights groups.
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.
To justify his decision to surrender south Lebanon to Iran's Lebanese proxy force, Barak and his media flacks repeatedly presented the false claim that Hizbullah only fought Israel because Israel was in Lebanon.
The false claim that childhood vaccinations such as MMR do NOT cause autism is another textbook example of the Big Lie Technique and readers should review the explanation of the Big Lie Technique provided above.
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Malley, a Palestinian apologist invented and propagated the false claim that the 2000 Camp David summit between the Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat and then prime minister Ehud Barak failed because Israel wasn't serious about giving the Palestinians a state.
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.
And when, in late 2007, the US's National Intelligence Assessment published the demonstrably false claim that Iran abandoned its nuclear weapons program in 2003, it became clear to anyone willing to see that the US had decided not to take any significant action to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons.
And as for Russia, like Iran, which responded to Obama's latest ode to the mullahs by opening a nuclear fuel plant and announcing it has 7, 000 advanced centrifuges in operation, so Moscow reacted to Obama's fig leaf with a machine gun, announcing its refusal to support sanctions against North Korea and repeating its false claim that Iran's nuclear program is nonaggressive.
So making a false asylum claim can offer the best chance of being allowed in.
Consequently, outside of Bible-literate Christian communities, today most people are comfortable parroting the totally false Palestinian claim that Jews have no rights to Judea, Samaria or Jerusalem.
The lawsuits, which have been denounced by the company as "completely false", claim to be based on inside information.
On its official website, the Falklands government rejects as false the Argentinian government claim that a civilian population was expelled by Britain in 1833 and argues for the inhabitants' right to choose their path.
The CNN Truth Squad determined the "death panel" claim was false, along with others spread by conservative commentators and activist groups who say Democratic proposals would promote euthanizing elderly Americans and mandate free health insurance for illegal immigrants.
Obama has rejected that claim as a false allegation intended to scare people.
The last question that should be asked by media: why would someone want to claim this with false circumspect and free association without proof?
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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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