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Manufactroversy
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99 years old
Seattle, Washington
United States
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5/2/2008
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Manufactroversy is a made-up word to describe a made up controversy when someone, motivated by profit or extreme ideology intentionally seeks to create confusion in the public mind about an issue when there is a mountain of scientific evidence stacked on one side of the scale. When scientists already knew that tobacco caused lung cancer, the tobacco industry spent decades and hundreds of millions of dollars manufacturing a controversy about whether this fact was true.
The large oil companies have created a manufactroversy about the link between greenhouse gas emissions and climate change; like the tobacco industry, they are spending tens of millions of dollars creating a controversy where there is none. Scientists have already moved on to asking follow-up questions like where, when and how.
Now, a group of creationists, people who believe the earth was created by God in six days, six thousand years ago are attacking evolution by claiming there is a controversy about whether the evolution is a proven scientific fact, which it absolutely is. Their allies have produced a movie, Ben Stein's Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed, that claims their religious beliefs should taught as science, when, of course they should not.
In this hot off the press manufactroversy, creationists are trying to invoke an imagined conspiracy of big government, big science, and high school science teachers working together to suppress the data that supports biblical creationism. But their data are pitiful. The mountain of scientific evidence supports evolution rather than the religious claims of creationism. What they really want is their religion taught in science classes regardless of where the evidence stacks up.
By creating this page, and with our efforts through other sites like manufactroversy.newsladder.net and the Facebook group to expose Expelled, we are attempting to break through the false claims and rhetoric of these groups, because while manufactroversies are made-up, the effects of them are all too real. Just think of the 100 million Americans who lost their lives to cancer while the tobacco industry touted their manufactroversy as proof.
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