English Dictionary

pseudo-controversy

名詞

Something falsely presented as a controversy.

日本語の意味

実際には論争ではなく、あたかも論争があると偽って提示されたもの。 / 見せかけの論争、虚偽の論争、擬似的な論争

The media frenzy turned a minor disagreement into a pseudo-controversy that distracted from real issues.

メディアの熱狂が小さな意見の相違を実際の問題から注意をそらすでっち上げの論争へと変えてしまった。

意味（1）

Something falsely presented as a controversy.

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. […]

pseudo-controversies （ plural ）