When there are such high profile debates over the validity of numbers, can they still be seen as objective?
Before the committee could present its findings, legislators from Mr. Wahid's party, the Nation Awakening Party, started a debate over the validity of the investigation, delaying the session.
Those comments by Mr. Bush have generated considerable debate over the validity of comparisons to Vietnam and the right of a president who eluded Vietnam service to make them.
For reformers, the debate over the validity of simoniacal ordinations was part of the broader dispute among church leaders over the efficacy of sacraments conferred by unworthy priests.
Indeed, part of the resonance of the leak investigation is that it goes back to the fierce debate over the validity of prewar intelligence about Saddam Hussein that led to a protracted and increasingly unpopular and costly conflict with no clear end in sight.
Cognitive psychology is best known, to many environmental economists, through the filter of acrimonious debates over the validity of contingent valuation methods (CVM).
The importance of this study is that it uses a model of abnormal cortical activity to which there are ample of evidence in human subjects suffering epilepsy (and PIH), and thus, it bypass the bitter debate over the validity of studying the headache phase of migraine using the controversial cortical spreading depression model – to which evidence for actual occurrence in humans are scarce.
UEA today announced that there would be an independent, external "reappraisal of the science" in CRU's key publications, creating the fifth group to look at CRU since private e-mails by and to its climate scientists were revealed last year and sparked a fierce debate over the validity of global warming research.
