Having said that, we would like to rebut the points raised by Dr Lestuzzi et al on our paper.
We would like you to consider and respond to the other comments made by the referees, if possible with experiments or with explanations to rebut the points raised.
These arguments convincingly rebut the points raised in Jiang's Comment, reveal potential inconsistencies in the processing procedure used by Xu et al., and raise substantial doubts about the validity of the Xu et al. reconstruction.
But instead of simply disagreeing with and rebutting the points made in the posts, he went after the reputation of the writers themselves.
In a 21-page report dated yesterday, the same investigating committee rebutted the points of her appeal one by one and concluded "that there is no need to re-investigate the results of the committee's investigation issued on March 31, 2014".
Obokata appealed the decision, but, as Dennis Normile reported in a Thursday ScienceInsider, "the same investigating committee rebutted the points of her appeal one by one and concluded 'that there is no need to re-investigate the results of the committee's investigation.' ".
Mr. Paterson stressed in the interview that he had been acting only out of a desire to rebut the specific point that Ms. Kennedy had been his first choice.
Strike a balance between presenting your team's point(s) and rebutting the opponents' point.
This way, your opponents may not even try to rebut that point at all, and if they do, you've set the basis for an easy rebuttal.
When carried away with flattery, Mr. Schlesinger could overplay his verbal skills to the point of rebutting claims of Al Gore's woodenness this way: "They mean that he is as graceful as a willow, as handsome as a birch tree and as sturdy as an oak".
The prosecution will then rebut the defense's points, and rest.
