disproof

“The disproof of that is the lack of pudding.”

Since then, there has been neither validation nor disproof, but largely a standoff.

As if goaded into disproof, one of the specks peeled away and began its near-vertical dive, directly above their heads.

It is indeed true that there is never “proof” in science in the sense that there may be in formal logic or mathematics, but, crucially, there is disproof.

Nor are weight problems among our poor any sort of disproof of the deserts; the truth is, corpulence can even be a perverse confirmation of them: In the absence of a grocery store’s plentiful, affordable, readily-available fruits and vegetables and other healthy foods, a person, a family, and a neighborhood can be beguiled by fat-laden calorie-rich fast food - oases of which seem to pop up where grocers fear to tread.