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Today, the test is still controversial, and many people assume it has been disproven.
There are many cases, some of which I talk about in the book, of people who have been slandered, called Nazis, physically assaulted, threatened with criminal prosecution for stumbling across or arguing about controversial findings.
Well, this turned out to be probably the most controversial claim in the book.
Let me say parenthetically why I think that's the case, because I think it's a potentially controversial statement.
In a highly controversial verdict, White received a sentence of only seven years and eight months– a decision that sparked uproar throughout the city in what became known as the White Night Riots.
Articles on controversial topics are edited a lot, but they don't cause much controversy within the community.
But we have this jargon term of neutrality, which has its own long history within the community, which basically says, any time there's a controversial issue, Wikipedia itself should not take a stand on the issue.
So we do have edits by anonymous users, which is one of the most controversial and intriguing things about Wikipedia.
I know we're getting crunchy and it's controversial, so before you throw your tomatoes, we'll move to the summer honey, which is water lily honey.
Today, though, I want to introduce you to a larger but no less controversial group of people impacted by traumatic brain injury, who don't often show up in the headlines.
Godwin's book, "The Man in the Moone, or a Discourse of a Voyage Thither," was only published posthumously and anonymously in 1638, likely on account of the number of controversial ideas that it contained, including an endorsement of the Copernican view of the universe that put the Sun at the center of the Solar System, as well as a pre-Newtonian concept of gravity that had the idea that the weight of an object would decrease with increasing distance from Earth.
The Genome Project was a controversial project in 1990.
From the coffin-like confines of her window, her arm guides the viewer back into the fray, to perhaps the most controversial symbols of all– two ghostly animals caught in the destruction.
I mean, it was a controversial move that you and your husband made.
Terrific, very controversial in some of his comments.
He was doing his normal show, very funny, and then at one point he said, he wanted to become very serious, and of course, if you know Jackie Mason, the audience became very anxious that Jackie would say one of his very controversial things, and, in fact, he did.
A romantic and a revolutionary, Neruda was one of the most celebrated poets of the 20th century, but also one of the most accessible and controversial.
The long-standing legacy of the US government's involvement in Latin America is controversial and well-documented.
This is a more controversial one.
What about controversial content, ambivalent content, uploaded by civil rights activists or citizen journalists?
Genetically engineered food crops, in my view, as a biologist, have no reason to be controversial.
OK? Now, in one sense, the claim that history has a direction is not that controversial.
Which was very controversial, but it resonated with a lot of people.
So it wasn't really all that controversial.
If you look back in time, any classic raunchy comedian never prided himself in being controversial.
Let's start at the beginning - Dave Chappelle cancels his show (which became UNEXPECTEDLY popular and controversial) and Comedy Central is looking around for someone new to push.
Controversial conclusion establishing that even kids can only tolerate so much.
Some describe CALIGULIA as "the" most controversial film of its era.
The movie fails at being serious, because the idea of killing for any school position (this being Prom Queen) crosses the line into insanity (not to mention shots of flag burning and drive-by shootings, a poor attempt at being controversial and edgy), and fails at being a comedy, for all the forced and awkwardly placed jokes (big butt mama, "funky" black principal, and excessive cussing delivered poorly by the principal cast).
"The Yoke's on Me" is undoubtedly the most controversial film in the Stooges' 23 years of shorts.
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