adversarial collaborations

A form of adversarial collaboration — Any of a class of study designs in which scientists with conflicting theories work together with others who are neutral or agnostic about those theories, and this team runs an experiment to test the theories empirically and thus find out whether one of the theories is contradicted by the evidence found.

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noun
  1. pluralplural of adversarial collaboration
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