Sentence examples for legitimate controversy from inspiring English sources

If what I do fails to generate legitimate controversy, maybe it just isn't that controversial.

The practice of bringing reporters into government is of such long standing that it is hard to believe that Republicans seriously think it is now a matter of legitimate controversy.

By treating the issue as if it were indeed a legitimate controversy is to give anti-evolutionists the "oxygen of respectability" (Dawkins 2003: 218).

Many Americans mistakenly believe that there is a legitimate controversy among scientists regarding the general acceptance and status of evolutionary biology, a belief recently fueled by the "teach the controversy" strategy among antievolutionists including the leading organization, the Discovery Institute (http://www.discovery.org/ accessed Apr 2008; DeWolf et al. 1999; Matzke and Gross 2006).

In the case of evolution, it is especially pernicious when a secondary scientific controversy is viewed as calling all of evolutionary theory into question and when a conflict between a scientific idea and non-scientific viewpoint is treated as a legitimate controversy within the scientific community.

Before approaching subjects, both researchers and institutional review boards must determine that there is such a legitimate controversy or question.

And dictionaries do play a role in legitimate controversies, like the continuing political battle over defining "marriage".

With the LGBT issue no longer an issue and the kitchen sink already having been thrown at the border, there are very few legitimate controversies left in the Gang of 8 bill for politicians on the right fringe to exploit.

I have a whole bit in our show from the last election about the "legitimate rape" controversy.

When Republicans started calling for Todd Akin to bow out of the United States Senate race in Missouri last month, Senator Claire McCaskill, his Democratic opponent, tried to avoid talking about his "legitimate rape" controversy on the campaign trail.

Typically, the language used in articulating their opinions indicated either a form of relativism, treating all theories as having scientific merit or as perceiving a legitimate scientific controversy with regard to creationism/ID's challenge to evolution.