[Miss Marple]

...invited to verify and confirm or falsify.

John, this isn't the word you want in an otherwise excellent column. "Falsify" means to make a forgery, to make falese records.

What you want to say is that readers are invited to disprove.

[Congressman Billybob]

Good evening, my friend,

In the law, "falsify" is used in the sense I used it.

John / Billybob