0 past simple and past participle of falsify
1 to change something, such as a document, in order to deceive people:
The certificate had clearly been falsified.
Until we find such evidence we should regard it as falsified.
Accordingly, the present hypothesis may not be regarded as a "unified theory," which can be either verified or falsified.
This claim is not falsified by assuming that the antecedent of the conditional cannot be true.
In physics and astronomy, hypotheses are either falsified if their predictions fail, or proved to be of value if they succeed.
With a significant amount of counterevidence (87.5% scope left), the scope direction part of the initial hypothesis is clearly falsified.
Moreover, in several cases, the entire exploded planet model was at risk of being falsified if the predictions failed.
Often the models are not falsifiable, or in the cases where they are falsifiable, they are in fact falsified.
If the ad hoc protective hypotheses themselves are falsified, yet more defences will be invented.
