CZ:Core controversial articles

This page is intended to provide links to existing and not yet created articles which are likely to raise passions, attract contributors, encourage the creation of numerous ancillary articles, and provide Citizendium opportunities to show to the world how important and inevitable it is.

Natural_Sciences

•  Quantum biology: An emerging discipline that aims to investigate quantum phenomena in living systems, and consider applications of the findings to science and technology. ^[e]
• Crop circle: Add brief definition or description
• Big foot: Add brief definition or description

Social_Sciences

• Guantanamo_detention_camp: Add brief definition or description
•  Heterodox economics movement: A movement seeking to gain acceptance of ideas which are outside the mainstream of economic thought. ^[e]
•  Terrorism: An act, with targets including civilians or civilian infrastructure, intended to create an atmosphere of fear in order to obtain a political objective. ^[e]

Humanities

• Heterosexism: Add brief definition or description
• Torture: Add brief definition or description
• Moral relativism: Add brief definition or description
• Animal rights: Add brief definition or description
•  Church of Scientology: Controversial religion based on the teachings of American author L. Ron Hubbard. ^[e]

Arts

•  Censorship: The act of preventing specifically defined ideals, concepts, images, or messages from being available to a given population. ^[e]

Applied Arts and Sciences

•  Acupuncture: A form of alternative medicine that involves inserting and manipulating needles into 'acupuncture points' on the body with the aim of restoring health and well-being. ^[e]
•  Circumcision: In male humans, removal, by cutting, of the foreskin (prepuce) from the penis; may be for cultural, medical, or religious reasons, or as a rite of passage ^[e]
•  Abortion: The deliberate expulsion of an embryo or foetus from the womb for the purpose of ending a pregnancy. ^[e]
•  Informed consent: Agreement, by the person affected or his surrogate, to make a knowledgeable decision consenting to participation in a medical treatment or research trial ^[e]
•  Homeopathy: System of alternative medicine involving administration of highly diluted substances with the intention to stimulate the body's natural healing processes, not considered proven by mainstream science. ^[e]
•  Chiropractic: A complementary, alternative health-care profession that aims to heal using manual therapies on the spine and extremities. ^[e]
•  Pseudoscience: Any theory, or system of theories, that is deceptively claimed to be scientific. ^[e]
•  Scientific method: The concept of systematic inquiry based on hypotheses and their testing in light of empirical evidence. ^[e]