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2014-06-19 03:43:04 by robin ayub

BED BUGS AND THEFT
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BED BUGS AND THEFT
http://www.thesteamboathouse.com/
BED BUGS AND THEFT
http://www.thesteamboathouse.com/
BED BUGS AND THEFT
http://www.thesteamboathouse.com/

BED BUGS AND THEFT
http://www.thesteamboathouse.com/

BED BUGS AND THEFT
http://www.thesteamboathouse.com/

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2014-06-27 14:24:08 by Mauro

Dale: Even if we can detect some ‘Social Darwinist’ leninags in the writings of Darwin (and I’ve seen enough quote-mining to believe we do) The trouble with quote mining is that it is often used to convey the opposite meaning to what the author intended.This is very clear with quotes from Darwin on so-called social Darwinism and eugenics. If your look at The Descent of Man you will find sections where Darwin quotes or describes arguments of proponents of eugenics and social Darwinism, followed by an explanation of why he thinks they ware wrong.Of course quote miners delight in just quoting the first part. Thus conveying the opposite meaning to what was intended.My impression (from reading the book not the quotes) is that Darwin clearly leaned the other way. However it is easy to crticise him for his quaint language normal to the time.I gave a blatant example of this sort of quote mining in . It's a common one but typified by D’Souza’s quote, in What’s So Great about Christianity: “there must have been a big bang singularity.” He is quoting Stephen Hawking from his book A Brief History of Time. He takes that from a paragraph in the book which starts: “The final result was a joint paper by Penrose and myself in 1970, which at last proved that there must have been a big bang singularity provided only that general relativity is correct and the universe contains as much matter as we observe.”But – at the end of the same paragraph Hawking adds: “It is perhaps ironic that, having changed my mind, I am now trying to convince other physicists that there was in fact no singularity at the beginning of the universe – as we shall see later, it can disappear once quantum effects are taken into account.”D'Souza based his whole argument on the dishonestly selected extract (quote mined) and it's hard to believe he didn't see the complete contradiction just a few words along.I think one should always check the original when you come across quotes. So easy to do these days. Ken

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