Word: donnybrooking
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...troops sealed off the Afghan side, trapping the terrorists. Things went awry when Mohmand tribesmen and Afghan fighters supporting the U.S. forces attacked the Pakistani soldiers. The Pakistanis, unsurprisingly, shot back. All together a dozen were killed or injured, and the U.S. was left to referee a nasty diplomatic donnybrook between key allies...
What followed was a sustained scientific Donnybrook. Roses, whose penchant for plain speaking had long irritated his peers, was attacked--viciously, he says--and he proceeded to fight back in kind. He dubbed his opposition the Amyloid People and mercilessly taunted them. The plaques, he argued--and still argues--were just tombstones, markers of places where brain cells had died, not the cause of death. On one occasion, Roses sent Selkoe, who had co-founded a company to work on Alzheimer's therapeutics, a photograph inscribed with the message "Dennis, you're wrong--but you're going to be rich...