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More Quote Mines From Texas

By John Pieret

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Jeremy Mohn, who has already done yeoman's work, in his "Collapse of a Texas Quote Mine," uncovering the quote-mining of the creationists on the Texas State Board of Education, has found more examples, this time by the truly execrable Terri Leo. Her method in this instance is the tried-and-untrue method of cutting off the quote before the thought is complete:

If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ existed, which could not possibly have been formed by numerous, successive, slight modifications, my theory would absolutely break down. But I can find out no such case.

Ironically, Ms. Leo performs her surgery in support of her alleged anticensorship.

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Full post as published by Thoughts in a Haystack on February 21, 2009 (boomark / email).

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