These small islands have become dangerous friction points between Asia's most economically linked countries, with all sides calling their claims irrefutable and just, and brushing aside the idea of compromise.
He has been on the receiving end of so much ire, not unlike Kissinger, that he has coined a phrase as a blanket defence, Correct Politicalness, which he defines as an attempt to "undermine an irrefutable argument by claiming loudly and repetitively to have found an error in it".
Now, in this era of genetic medicine in the hospital, genetic fingerprinting in the courts and genetic modification on the farm, Watson's claim is irrefutable.
The alleged culprits include Turkey (which did help the Chechens from time to time), the Taliban fighters who control most of Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia and the CIA.On August 14th, Russia fired off a letter to the G-7, the European Union and the Islamic Conference, claiming that "irrefutable facts attest that the terrorists are receiving financial, material and other assistance from outside".
Vale chief executive Perry Deakin told BBC Radio Stoke : "We have irrefutable evidence that the claims are false.
Port Vale will publish "irrefutable evidence" to prove claims made by the CEO of Blue Sky International regarding their £5m investment are inaccurate.
It repeated the claim it was "irrefutable evidence that US are actually covering Isis [IS] combat units to recover their combat capabilities, redeploy, and use them to promote the American interests in the Middle East".
"They had come to believe, even unwillingly, that its theological claims were biblically irrefutable," Professor Wacker writes.
Speaking on a visit to Singapore this week, Timor-Leste's oil minister, Alfredo Pires, claimed to have "irrefutable proof" that, during negotiations in 2004, Australia's secret services had illegally obtained information.
The navy troops claimed there was "irrefutable" evidence that Rajoelina had paid the army corps hundreds of millions of ariary and that they should face trial in accordance with military law, but called for other nations not to get involved in what they considered a purely domestic affair.
Although I agree that Chagnon was often despised for his hardcore sociobiology, in fact, the critics of Chagnon and Neel have tried hard sometimes to appeal to documentary evidence, seemingly admitting that documentary evidence can constitute irrefutable, unambiguous proof of their claims.
