"Most fields of normal science could pull from the shelf dozens or hundreds, if not thousands, of studies testing their various hypotheses and contentions, which had been conducted over the past decades or century, and hand them to the court,'' Michael Saks wrote in "Modern Scientific Evidence".
"Most fields of normal science could pull from the shelf dozens or hundreds, if not thousands, of studies testing their various hypotheses and contentions, which had been conducted over the past decades or century, and hand them to the court," Michael Saks wrote in "Modern Scientific Evidence".
The results offered the latest round of support for what has been called the "hygiene hypothesis," a growing contention that we don't have enough dirt and germs in our lives.
In sum, Bünning's hypothesis remains in contention but unproven in insects.
The mechanisms by which nodal flow is 'perceived' by the embryo remain the subject of debate, with three main hypotheses currently in contention.
Hypothesis 1, the traditional contention of theology and some philosophy, is in its most general form not inconsistent with contemporary scientific knowledge, although scientific knowledge is inconsistent with a literal interpretation of the biblical accounts given in chapters 1 and 2 of Genesis and in other religious writings.
This "mutationist" hypothesis was very much in contention as an explanation of biased fractionation, where one subgenome's genes gets deleted significantly more often than the other subgenome (Sankoff et al. 2010; Freeling et al. 2012).
Members of Congress (who seem to be in a position to know) expose the petitioners' hypothesis as specious, but the government's contention that the phrase was selected as a "term of art" is rather precious.
When he's not grading papers or holding office hours, he attempts to decipher music's role in the animal kingdom, guided by a 13-year-old hypothesis he calls "the universal theory": the contention that animals, including humans, resonate most strongly with the rhythms they hear during early development, especially their mother's voice and her 4/4 heartbeat.
However, it is our contention that the implications of the neurodevelopmental hypothesis of schizophrenia for nosological conceptions of the disorder, and thus for research into its aetiology and pathogenesis, can only now be fully appreciated.
