Triviality Leads to Conflict

Parkinson's law of triviality > Example/Illustration > Kissenger Describes Sayre's law
The simpler the issue, the more debate. Academia is trivial, so the politics are harsher.

 Buffon VS Jefferson on European VS American Wildlife

French Encyclopedists Disparage Wildlife in the New World > Contrast > Comparing European and American Mammals and Livestock
Buffon argues that North American life is diminished in comparison to Europe's life. Jefferson refutes him with cold data (however apparently embellished).