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单词 pseudo-controversy
释义

pseudo-controversy

English

Etymology

pseudo- + controversy

Noun

pseudo-controversy (plural pseudo-controversies)

  1. Something falsely presented as a controversy.
    • 1982, Richard Dawkins, The Extended Phenotype
      gradualism: The doctrine that evolutionary change is gradual and does not go in jumps. In modern palaeontology it is the subject of an interesting controversy over whether the gaps in the fossil record are artefactual or real (see Chapter 6). Journalists have blown this up into a pseudo-controversy over the validity of Darwinism, which they say is a gradualist theory. []
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