It is remarkable how decisively excellent and characterful performances of Bach on the piano in recent decades have settled the once contentious issue as to whether that instrument should continue to be used in Bach at all.
You will appreciate that it is a contentious issue as to whether or not we should be discouraging some trainees from taking time out to go through the traditional route of academic development, and I know that our own trainees in the southeast of Scotland generally do take time out to undertake a period of full-time study toward an MD or a PhD but not all of them go on to become academic surgeons.
Locations could be also contentious: in France, some arguments as to whether market places, for example, were suitable locations: was it good to choose a central location, or did this cheapen the symbolism?
1 Despite this guidance, lowering the diagnostic threshold for troponin remains a highly contentious issue, with clinicians uncertain as to whether the benefits of improved sensitivity will outweigh problems that might arise from reduced specificity.
This is despite the contentious issue, discussed by Hurdy et al., as to whether the 'mouth' end of the cnidarian body plan corresponds to the head or tail end of a bilaterian.
There's also a question as to whether the Democrats will be able to unify in the face of an increasingly contentious primary battle.
Knowledge of their respective genomic positions then allowed us to address the question as to whether evolutionary breakpoints co-locate with cancer-associated breakpoints and/or common fragile sites, an issue which has been quite contentious over the last few years [ 23, 67].
The debate is especially contentious with respect to whether or not hatchery- or captive-rearing, in general, can maintain attributes other than genetic diversity, namely fitness.
Whether to treat abscesses with concomitant antibiotics in addition to incision and drainage is also contentious, as most RCTs to date have been underpowered [16,17].
