pseudodebate

plural pseudodebates

1. Something presented as a debate in which there is no real disagreement.

   We have already seen one such noncontroversy in the form of the pseudodebate about Lyme disease.

   2016, Steven Hatch, Snowball in a Blizzard

   2 more examples

   In Constitutional Fate, Bobbitt argues that the controversy over the legitimacy of judicial review is a pseudodebate, driven largely by a false picture of the nature of argument in constitutional law.

   1996, Dennis Michael Patterson, Wayne A. Patterson, Law and Truth, page 129

   Paul Ehrlich, again, is not innocent here, for the best example, and the most important, is the pseudodebate between Malthusian pessimists and anti-Malthusian optimists.

   1998, Tom Athanasiou, Divided Planet: The Ecology of Rich and Poor, page 80