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How can controversies be
useful?
 Identifying
and evaluating problems
Identifying
advantages and disadvantages
Raising
public awareness
Public
education
Involving
more people in decision-making
"A critic is not brighter or wiser
than a proponent, but he usually operates by stacking up
as many objections as are feasible. Invariably some of
these are groundless, but they force both sides to
examine carefully those assumptions which might otherwise
be taken for granted, and in the process valid problems
are sometimes brought to light."
Allan Mazur
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