As Max Weber reminds us in his seminal article 'science as a vocation', scientists are destined to outdate each other's work ruthlessly this is our common fate this explains why the scientific fields are inevitably full of contentions, tensions and conflicts: 'In science, each of us knows that what [s/]he has accomplished will be antiquated in 10, 20, 50 years.
To achieve these goals, the escalation in tensions and rhetoric, which invariably are amplified in media coverage that naturally favors contention and conflict, must be tamped down.
Same-field peer review would become a bitter arena of scientific contentions and inter-personal conflicts.
An issue of contention is the coincidence and conflict between conservation strategies and indigenous peoples.
The Working Party is aware that the wearing of masks remains an area of contention in many Trusts and conflicting evidence may be cited [ 9, 10].
We have summarized our contentions, and now they summarize their contentions, then we reply to their contentions, and then they reply to our contentions, and then the judge gives his decision, which will be that I am right.
In those debates, judges score as they follow contentions and counter-contentions, within affirmative and negative statements.
S/he must refute every contention of side government, rebuild all of side opposition's contentions and introduce any additional contentions s/he wishes to add.
Hours after the United States Supreme Court declined to hear arguments in the Elian Gonzalez case, the 6-year-old left behind seven months of contention, conflict and court battles, and returned home to Cuba tonight with his father.
If such an argument were sound, it might provide a compelling response to the relativist contention that conflicts between moral frameworks cannot be rationally resolved.
