it is possible for some evidence to exist in favor of false propositions.
This is possible with any definition of evidence. Every bit of information you receive makes you discard some theories which have been disproven, so it's evidence in favour of each of the ones you don't discard. But only one of those is fully true; the others are false.
r/Fitness does a weekly "Moronic Monday", a judgment-free thread where people can ask questions that they would ordinarily feel embarrassed for not knowing the answer to. I thought this seemed like a useful thing to have here - after all, the concepts discussed on LessWrong are probably at least a little harder to grasp than those of weightlifting. Plus, I have a few stupid questions of my own, so it doesn't seem unreasonable that other people might as well.