As he points out in this eloquent, if not always persuasive, book, compulsory vaccination collided with fundamental medical and religious beliefs held by millions; it overran the rights of parents and, most painfully, contradicted strongly held, and particularly American, notions of personal liberty.
Technical knowledge often contradicted strongly held local myths, e.g., "If a man has a healthy five-year-old son, this means he is not HIV positive".
Obama needs to make it clear that the reality of occupation and segregation contradicts the strongly held values of the American people, is in no one's interests, and cannot last indefinitely.
The association's findings also strongly contradict Foxconn's statement, sent earlier this year to The New York Times, that workers generally "are limited to no more than 60 hours per week".
Given the perception - stoked by some quarters of the media and certain politicians - that there is widespread public hostility to wind power, it is interesting to see that the report's findings strongly contradict this view: Wind energy is viewed favourably by a majority of the British public, in line with a desire to move to a renewable energy system.
Most striking about the senior officer's briefing was the way in which – once again – it appeared to strongly contradict the official government narrative of the causes of the violence which Netanyahu and other figures have blamed on "Palestinian incitement" including by Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas.
"I would strongly contradict the idea that they are from the European bubble, as you put it," said Mechthild Herzog from Weimar in Germany.
In turn, the findings strongly contradict McDaniel and Einstein's claims that ProM with focal cues is spared by aging due to "automatic", "obligatory", or "reflexive" retrieval of the previously formed plan.
32 33 Our results strongly contradict this assertion: the risk relationship increases more steeply at lower levels of glomerular filtration rate for women than for men.
On the other hand, the available SSU rDNA data do not support any scenario that would strongly contradict a common origin of H. pelagica (Additional file 3).
