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- noun The
deliberate presentation of a largelyuncontroversial matter as subject tosubstantive dispute in order to further a particularideological orpolitical agenda .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Quite simply, they created a 'manufactroversy' - a phrased coined by my colleague Max Bernstein, the strategy of creating a controversy where there isn't one.
James Boyce: Union Pacific Comes Clean On Coal. Kind Of. 2009
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My colleague Max Bernstein and I created a word to describe the right's strategy of creating a scientific controversy where there is none -- manufactroversy.
James Boyce: Big Oil's About to Go Big Money in California James Boyce 2010
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My colleague Max Bernstein and I created a word to describe the right's strategy of creating a scientific controversy where there is none -- manufactroversy.
James Boyce: Big Oil's About to Go Big Money in California James Boyce 2010
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My colleague Max Bernstein and I created a word to describe the right's strategy of creating a scientific controversy where there is none -- manufactroversy.
James Boyce: Big Oil's About to Go Big Money in California James Boyce 2010
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My colleague Max Bernstein and I created a word to describe the right's strategy of creating a scientific controversy where there is none -- manufactroversy.
James Boyce: Big Oil's About to Go Big Money in California James Boyce 2010
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Do you roll your eyes about the "war on Christmas"manufactroversy?
Valerie Tarico: Celebrating Love And Light: 10 Holiday Tips For The Post-Religious Valerie Tarico 2010
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Do you roll your eyes about the "war on Christmas" manufactroversy?
Valerie Tarico: Celebrating Love And Light: 10 Holiday Tips For The Post-Religious Valerie Tarico 2010
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Sure, McCain has every right to question Obama's policies, his past statements and past votes, and even his past associations to the extent they are truly relevant and not a manufactroversy (i.e., a manufactured controversy).
Paul Abrams: McCain, Media & Meltdown: A Witches' Brew for Election Violence 2008
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NewsLadder. net that aggregates articles and blog posts about this manufactroversy and some other pretty famous ones as well.
Valerie Tarico: Ben Stein: Front Man for Creationism's Manufactroversy 2008
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A manufactroversy is when someone motivated by profit or ideology fosters confusion in the public mind long after scientists have moved on to the next set of questions.
Valerie Tarico: Ben Stein: Front Man for Creationism's Manufactroversy 2008
seanahan commented on the word manufactroversy
See this link .
April 14, 2008
mcritz commented on the word manufactroversy
A manufactured controversy.
January 12, 2011
billprice commented on the word manufactroversy
"While it's true that last week parents were told that Andrew Wakefield's 1998 paper was fraudulent, what we're dealing with is not a "debate." It's a pseudodebate. It's a manufactroversy. The actual scientific debate over whether vaccines cause autism was over years ago."
Source: http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2011/01/jenny_mccarthy_weighs_in_about_andrew_wa.php
January 12, 2011
qms commented on the word manufactroversy
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And Hillary hauled off to jail:
A manufactroversy
That persists perversely.
It's bait they will take without fail.
November 7, 2016