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Who Killed Expelled? You Did! (zemblan.dailykos.com)

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Expelling Evolution on Darwin Day? What Gives? (www2.tbo.com)

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"God Said it; I Believe it; That Settles It" (debunkingchristianity.blogspot.com)

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Some Expelled News from Kansas (www.pandasthumb.org)

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Ben Stein: "Worser Person in the World" (onegoodmove.org)

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Florida's "I Believe" license plate rejected (shakespearessister.blogspot.com)

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Stanford Law School defends "fair use" of "Imagine" by "Expelled" (www.businesswire.com)

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More controversy over gravity than evolution (formsmostbeautiful.blogspot.com)

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More on Manufactroversy (scottmacknight.blogspot.com)

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Expelled: They want to make more films like this! (www.dallasnews.com)

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Defining Manufactroversy

Manufactroversy is a made up word, apropos because manufactroversies are made up controversies. The biggest danger of manufactroversies—which are most actively produced by tobacco companies, oil companies, and Creationists—is that they can quietly and insidiously morph into public memes.

Manufactroversy (măn'yə-făk'-trə-vûr'sē) N., pl. -sies.

1. A manufactured controversy, motivated by profit or extreme ideology, that intentionally creates public confusion about an issue that is not in dispute.

2. Effort is often accompanied by imagined conspiracy theory and major marketing dollars involving fraud, deception and polemic rhetoric.

The Manufactroversy NewsLadder

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