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• Morality
  ...applied ethics, for example, the prohibition against taking human life is controversial with respect to capital punishment, abortion and wars of invasion. In norma ...ugh group selection (though whether "group selection" actually occurs is a controversial topic in evolutionary theory). Some sociobiologists contend that the set of
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• Life Extension
  ...tps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embryonic_stem_cells embryonic stem cells], is controversial. Opponents' objections generally are based on [[interpretations]] of [[reli ...the [[idea]] based on their [[expectations]] of the capabilities of future science.[22]
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• Desire
  ...t; Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez; the sensual, yet controversial novel Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov; Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte, and Dracul ...the voyeuristic desires of its audience". Focusing on the dystopian 1980s science fiction film Blade Runner, she calls the film an "Object of Visual Desire",
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• African Philosophy
  ...ic, pointing out that Egypt was an African culture whose achievements in [[science]], [[mathematics]], [[architecture]], and [[philosophy]] provided a basis f
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• Books/Secondary Corpus
  ...the [[intellectual]] world of arid [[abstractions]], Whole Earth pushed [[science]], [[intellectual]] endeavor, and new [[technology]] as well as old. As a r ...ed from modern encyclopedias, particularly in biography and the history of science and technology. As a literary text, the encyclopedia holds value as a voice
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• Brainwashing
  ...(NRMs). Since their application to NRMs, mind control theories have become controversial within [[scientific]] and [[legal]] [[contexts]]; Both the [https://en.wiki ...usceptible to black and white [[thinking]].[14] Meanwhile, in ''Influence, Science and Practice'', social psychologist Robert Cialdini argues that mind contro
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• The Qur’ān
  ...of [[Judaism]] and [[Christianity]]. The actual number of ayat has been a controversial issue among Muslim scholars since Islam's inception, some recognizing 6,000 # Ahmad Dallal, Encyclopedia of the Qur'an, Qur'an and science
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• Race2
  ...retation, causes, accuracy and reliability of these differences are highly controversial. Some researchers, such as [[Arthur Jensen]], [[Richard Herrnstein]], and [ ...edication,<ref> Duster, Troy (2005) "Race and Reification in Science" in ''Science'' 307(5712): 1050-1051, Fausto-Sterling, Anne (2004) "Refashioning Race: DN
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• Causality
  ===Science=== ...ntrolled trials) were not used to establish that link. This view has been controversial. In addition, many philosophers are beginning to turn to more relativized
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• Race
  ...), and self-identification. [https://schools.tdsb.on.ca/rhking/departments/science/bio/evol_pop_dyn/does_race_exist.pdf "Does Race Exist?"], ''Scientific Amer ...ouping races]], vary by culture and over time, and are often [[Controversy|controversial]] for scientific as well as [[social identity|social]] and [[identity polit
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• Evolution
  ...on the Teaching of Evolution, American Association for the Advancement of Science. ...istance via transposition-mediated adaptive gene truncation in Drosophila, Science, v. 309 2005)
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• Power
  ...ection''') is a term used in [[military science|military]] and [[political science]] to refer to the capacity of a [[state]] to implement policy by means of f ===Political Science Perspectives===
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• Heresy
  The [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_of_religion science of religions] borrowed the term heresy from Christian usage as fixed in [[c ...1996. A vigorous novel appraisal of facts and problems by a leading albeit controversial German New Testament scholar. Extensive bibliography.
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• Earth
  ...nd time scales for the delivery of water to Earth, Meteoritics & Planetary Science, [https://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2000M&PS...35.1309M] The highly energetic ...on event|mass extinctions]]. Mass Extinctions in the Marine Fossil Record, Science [https://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1982Sci...215.1501R] The last extinction ev
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• Algorithm
  In [[mathematics]], [[Computer Science|computing]], [[linguistics]] and related subjects, an '''algorithm''' is a The analysis and study of algorithms is a discipline of [[computer science]], and is often practiced abstractly without the use of a specific programm
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• Ufology
  ...t in 1969, he co-organised a symposium on the subject, [[thinking]] that [[science]] had unfairly neglected the UFO question. However, Westrum wrote that "Sag ...hat mainstream rejection of UFO evidence is a classic case of pathological science. Astronomer and ufologist J. Allen Hynek's famous comment regarding this su
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• J. Gordon Melton
  ...octrination. During the 1970s and 1980s he was a prominent opponent of the controversial methods of deprogramming. He based his criticisms on the grounds that (a) d ...ious organizations or movements: Aum Shinrikyo, Branch Davidian, Christian Science, Church Universal, Eckankar, Evangelical Church, The Family, Hare Krishna,
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• 2014-11-03-New Era Conversations 33
  ...taking defective genes out of reproductive pool, leads me to wonder if our science of gene mapping is anywhere near proficient enough for its application to b ...ally and socially and morally through social policies, rather than through science and technologies, which on your planet are still extremely primitive. If y
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• 1992-11-08-Healing
  Q: Andrea, when you talk about proper [[diet]], that's somewhat [[controversial]] in our [[society]] right now. I was [[wondering]] if you could be more sp ANDREA: More or less, this is true. What your [[science]] of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radionics radionics] does not know yet,
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• Meditation
  ...tion]], it is largely based on mystical exercises. However, this method is controversial among Muslim scholars. One group of Ulama, [[Al-Ghazzali]], for instance, h ...a lack of physical health, and there is a growing movement in mainstream [[science]] to fund research in this area (e.g. the establishment by the [[National I
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