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'''{{PAGENAME}}''' is a meaningless term that expresses objection when a quote is used against person quoted.  This term is not recognized by the dictionary, and is used primarily by evolution believers to oppose the use of quotations by evolutionists themselves that tend to discredit their theory.<ref>The term "quote mining" shows up on only 34,500 Google pages as of May 14, 2007.</ref>   
 
'''{{PAGENAME}}''' is a meaningless term that expresses objection when a quote is used against person quoted.  This term is not recognized by the dictionary, and is used primarily by evolution believers to oppose the use of quotations by evolutionists themselves that tend to discredit their theory.<ref>The term "quote mining" shows up on only 34,500 Google pages as of May 14, 2007.</ref>   
  
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==Examples==
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The entire legal and political fields use quotes by others against them. There is nothing objectionable about this practice, and the term quote-mining could apply to nearly every legal proceeding and political campaign.
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An out of context mined quotation <ref>http://www.saintsalive.com/general/wonderfully.htm</ref> (bold), from the full quote <ref>http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/1228</ref> (in italics):
 
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<blockquote>"'''''To suppose that the eye, with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction of spherical and chromatic aberration, could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree.''' Yet reason tells me, that if numerous gradations from a perfect and complex eye to one very imperfect and simple, each grade being useful to its possessor, can be shown to exist; if further, the eye does vary ever so slightly, and the variations be inherited, which is certainly the case; and if any variation or modification in the organ be ever useful to an animal under changing conditions of life, then the difficulty of believing that a perfect and complex eye could be formed by natural selection, though insuperable by our imagination, can hardly be considered real.''" -- [[Charles Darwin]], from ''[[The Origin of Species]]'', 1859.</blockquote>
 
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An abridged mined quotation <ref>http://www.spinsanity.org/columns/20030522.html</ref> (bold), from the full quote <ref>http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2003/05/20030505-4.html</ref> (in italics):
 
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<blockquote>"'''''Al Qaeda is on the run. That group of terrorists who attacked our country is slowly, but surely being decimated.''' Right now, about half of all the top al Qaeda operatives are either jailed or dead. In either case, '''they're not a problem anymore.''' And we'll stay on the hunt. To make sure America is a secure country, the al Qaeda terrorists have got to understand it doesn't matter how long it's going to take, they will be brought to justice.''" -- [[George W. Bush]], May 5, 2003. </blockquote>
 
  
 
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*[[Young Earth Creationism]] (some of the proofs)
 

Revision as of 03:08, June 29, 2007

Quote mining is a meaningless term that expresses objection when a quote is used against person quoted. This term is not recognized by the dictionary, and is used primarily by evolution believers to oppose the use of quotations by evolutionists themselves that tend to discredit their theory.[1]

The entire legal and political fields use quotes by others against them. There is nothing objectionable about this practice, and the term quote-mining could apply to nearly every legal proceeding and political campaign.

References

  1. ↑ The term "quote mining" shows up on only 34,500 Google pages as of May 14, 2007.

External Links

See also

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