Quote mining is a pejorative term, not recognized by dictionaries,
Lie the first. The dictionary term is contextomy.
Noun
contextomy (plural contextomies)
1. The practice, or act of quoting people out of context, with the aim of winning an argument.
* 1964, Milton Mayer, What can a man do?: A selection of his most challenging writings, page 33:
saying that the Literary Gazette had committed the Chicago Tribune's habitual crime of contextomy against me.
* 1967, Paul F. Boller, Quotemanship: the use and abuse of quotations for polemical and other purposes, page 286:
The competent quoteman, no matter how eager he is to outwit his opponent, will have neither the need nor the inclination to stoop to contextomy of the flagrantly mendacious sort.
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* 2008 May 29, Amol Rajan, “Excellent! Theatres forced to withdraw misleading reviews”, The Independent:
The prosecution would have to prove that audiences were misled by the practice, known as contextomy. Those who break the laws could face fines
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which expresses objection to using someone's quotes against him. While the entire fields of law and politics encourage quoting an adversary to discredit him
You can stop right there. Science isn't practiced like law, and comparing politics to science is equally irrelevant. You have a right to your own opinion. You DO NOT have a right to your own FACTS. Physical facts--observable, verifiable reality--do not change according to what one personally believes to be true, what laws are passed, or how one personally votes.
Interestingly enough, the overwhelming majority of people pushing for creationism to be taught in schools in the United States aren't scientists by any definition of the term--they're pastors, priests, spokespersons and lobbyists for various religious groups, conservative religious leaders, and lawyers in the employ of one conservative religious thinktank or another, like the Discovery Institute. And with a bare handful of exceptions, most of those scientists who DO support creationism are not involved in any way with the lifesciences or geology. Engineers seem to be disproportionately represented among them. If all you have is a hammer...
evolutionist do not feel their quotes should be used against them and have invented the term quote mining to criticize that practice.
One more time, with feeling:
Quote mining is the term used when fundies attempt to lie by snipping isolated phrases, sentences or paragraphs out of larger passages in an attempt to pretend that the original author meant the opposite of what he actually meant.
See also:
"Lying for Jesus."
Lies should be countered with truth. You do your religion a grave disservice.
You are a jabbering imbecile.
