The consequent debates about whether the theory of evolution was more than a tautology should have generated serious philosophical embarrassment.
Sir, Bourke et al (2013) raise important and topical issues concerning the expanding literature and consequent increasingly informed debate surrounding the risks, benefits and cost-effectiveness of androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) in advanced prostate cancer (Bourke et al, 2013).
The senator lamented the unprecedented speed with which the tax plans have been rushed through Congress, and the consequent lack of public debate.
The more modern versions of dualism have their origin in Descartes' Meditations, and in the debate that was consequent upon Descartes' theory.
Durey's analysis of those debates led him to conclude that, at that time, medical science was in a Kuhnian pre-paradigm state and that the consequent lack of a useful evidentiary system produced debates between the contagionist Royal College of Physicians and anticontagionists that were "inchoate, petty and increasingly shrill".
There seems to be general agreement that one of the contributory factors in bringing about the present collapse of public respect for parliament is the decline in the quality of debate in the Commons chamber and the consequent lack of adequate scrutiny of either legislation or the conduct of government.
In fact, the early emphasis on publication and the consequent lengthening of graduate study has quietly settled the debate over whether the humanities should create a new class of postdoctoral fellows.
However, the debate turns out to be largely a consequence of imprecise definition and consequent misunderstanding of key concepts (e.g., Graham et al. 2004; Fitzpatrick et al. 2008), rather than true conflict of ideas, as has been made clear by recent insights (Warren et al. 2008) and an extensive literature review (Peterson 2011).
The techniques for the generation of artificial records and their effectiveness in producing signals which are significantly representative of real earthquakes are still debated as well as results of the consequent seismic assessment to expect from their application.
But their escape and consequent flourishing in the British countryside led to an anguished debate among ornithologists decades later, as well as a nationwide cull that has cost more than £5m.
