Talk:Manufactroversy/Archive1

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Origins of the word

I see the word comes up on a few science sites, but does anyone have any idea where the term originated. Its obviously a portmanteau but i mean as far as time and first usage? EternalCritic (talk) 21:55, 13 January 2011 (UTC)

According to this, the first use was this. But I don't know how reliable that is. Aconite (talk) 22:29, 13 January 2011 (UTC)

The listed examples aren't manufactroversies

The Creation/Evolution Debates and Vaccine Hysteria rise above the level of manufactroversy. I've always seen this term used for controversies created by necessity of the 24 hours news cycle and/or fringe outrage. For example, Barack Obama ordering dijon mustard on his burger, or the suggestion that "you can't put lipstick on a pig" was a smear against Sarah Palin. I'm hard pressed to come up with left wing examples, but I'm sure there are some. Stile4aly (talk) 23:46, 13 January 2011 (UTC)

They can be more than one thing, I've expanded the article a smidgin and they do seem to fit - and they make neat little examples too. Scandals being mushroomed out of all proportion fit too, though, IMO. TQM (talk) 19:47, 15 September 2012 (UTC)

List of political manufactroversies?

Between the ever pleasant Operation Fast and Furious, the nonsense around the 2012 Benghazi attack and stuff around the IRS, perhaps it might be worth a new section about these items? Zero ^{(talk - contributions)} 13:06, 9 September 2014 (UTC)