In this litigious country, we've gotten into the habit of assuming there are exactly two "sides" to every issue. That's a lazy and simply untenable habit we need to break.
One of my few hard beliefs is that if you see everything as black and white, you are living in a dangerously simplistic world. Many issues have more than two sides. A few manufactured controversies, such as the alleged "controversy" over evolution, aren't controversies at all. ("Intelligent design," "creationism" under a different name, is not a testable scientific hypothesis, much less a scientific theory. If you think it is, you need to bone up on what constitutes a scientific hypothesis and a scientific theory. In the process, you might find that science is far more open to challenges to orthodoxy than you thought, and that there is no need to "teach" a false controversy.)
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