The phrase "active debate about whether" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing ongoing discussions or differing opinions on a particular issue or topic.
Example: "There is an active debate about whether climate change is primarily caused by human activity or natural processes."
Alternatives: "ongoing discussion regarding" or "lively discourse on whether".
The findings are likely to stimulate further an already active debate about whether hospitals and other medical centers should test all patients for MRSA upon admission.
They contend the constitution is pretty clear on the matter: children born on U.S. soil to noncitizens have the right to become citizens, although there's an active debate about whether the same rights extend to children born to those here illegally.
Aside from the active debate about whether humans should attempt to contact aliens in the first place, the laser-telescope combo could scramble instruments on board any satellites and aircraft, or lead to vision problems for anyone who looked directly at the beam.
However, it should be noted that for the KCNQ1 tetramer there is an active debate about whether the transition of all, some, or any of the four VSDs to the activated state is needed for channel opening.
There's also an active debate about the best way to present the opportunity to register.
We next describe an active debate about the coherence of student conceptions and discuss implications of this debate for biology instructors.
There is, in fact, an active debate among scientists about whether the pause even happened at all.
And while the companies that sell GMO seeds to farmers insist that their products are safe for people, animals, and the environment, there is an active debate among scientists about whether or not there is sufficient data to support that conclusion.
While bank lobbyists and some commentators are suddenly taken with the idea that an active debate is under way about whether to limit bank size in the United States, they are wrong.
But he does admit that there was an "active debate" within the committee about whether Mr Annan was aware that Cotecna was bidding for the oil-for-food contract before it was awarded.In the absence of any documentary evidence or reliable reports by third parties, the committee had concluded that the evidence was "not reasonably sufficient" to show that he did know.
Although there is agreement that memory increases variability in the color representation, there is active debate within the color representation community about whether memory introduces systematic biases to the color representation.
