When it came time for members of the board to express their opinions, Richards opposed the change.
Among students, he says, "lots of them wonder how to express their patriotism; people say opposing GM is patriotic, so they say, 'Fine, I'll oppose GM.'" He says the scientists have not received an official answer to their appeal, but he is heartened at least by their new willingness to speak out.
Experts quoted in the article offered these other suggestions: If you fire someone early in the week, it is easier to make a transition, and it gives co-workers a chance to express their concerns immediately (as opposed to waiting for the weekend to be over).
At the very least they need a common ethical language so that the opposing worldviews can express their differences in terms that the opposition can understand.
A 1999 survey in Sheffield, UK found that while a 62% majority favored water fluoridation in the city, the 31% that were opposed expressed their preference with greater intensity than supporters.
She points out that in the view of the French anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss, myth's task is to express opposing visions simultaneously, encompassing the incompatible.
Still, he said that Moscow would not hesitate to express opposing views on arms control issues, on questions of international security and on how to narrow the gap between the "golden billion" and the world's poorest nations, a new theme for him.
Our speakers still receive challenging questions and students express opposing opinions in follow-up essays for classes, but the general tone is one of respectful and open discussion.
GPs without academic involvement did not express opposing views but accepted these beliefs and agreed with them in general.
For example, while the three cone types of humans are distributed in a stochastic mosaic pattern of varying concentrations throughout their retinas, the short-wave and medium-wave opsins of mice are expressed in opposing gradients along the superior (dorsal/ventral) axis [ 15].
