"Prevarication" fundamentally means "lying" or "telling falsehood". It can be used in a sentence in various ways, with the following as just one example: "Over time, her daily prevarication had become such a habit that it eventually was no longer a conscious choice."

postvarication

perjury

forswearing

falsification

lying

prevarication

fabrication

oathbreach

bearing false witness

giving false testimony

lying under oath

wilful falsehood

deceitfulness

deception

dishonesty

equivocation

false oath

false statement

false swearing

mendaciousness

mendacity

untruthfulness

bearing false testimony

false testimony

forswearing oneself giving false evidence

violation of an oath

making false statements

deceit

kidology

duplicity

perfidy

falseness

dissimulation

misrepresentation

double-dealing

fibbing

telling stories

artifice

perfidiousness

No. The statement is rank prevarication.

It's a part of the science and art of prognostication without prevarication.