What point is there in admitting that the stories fed to the gullible public were false?

承认向轻信的公众提供的报道不实又有什么意义呢？

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But Fowler's point is worth heeding: Beware the folly of the false scent.

但是福勒的一点是值得你的注意：谨防假语气。

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At some point, what was real became false.

在某一时刻，本来是真实的事情就变成虚假的了。

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Well, we'll talk about that, but the point here is they can be false.

我们以后会慢慢讨论，但关键在于它们是可以证伪的。

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So in other words, if thankful is still false at this point, it means this condition did not work out very well, and so I'm going to do this block of code again.

换句话说，如果thankful在这时候还是false值，这表示这个条件没有实现地很好，所以我将再次去处理这段代码。

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Should we be surprised that Fund would simply assume such guilt on his way to making a completely false point?

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But it is, again, a false promise to make by any politician that they have a 3-point plan -- that a 3-point plan exists that can guarantee a certain price for unleaded gasoline at your local Exxon or Sunoco or Chevron station.

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At this point we have seen that Stuxnet, Duqu and Flame have used false certificates to infiltrate a network.

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