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108:-era Germany. To arouse antisemitic sentiments among the weekly's working class Christian readership, Streicher regularly published truncated quotations from Talmudic texts that, in their shortened form, appear to advocate greed, slavery, and ritualistic murder. Although rarely employed to this malicious extreme, contextomy is a common method of misrepresentation in contemporary mass media, and studies have demonstrated that the effects of this misrepresentation can linger even after the audience is exposed to the original, in context, quote. 961: 3332: 120:" in advertising. The lure of media exposure associated with being "blurbed" by a major studio may encourage some critics to write positive reviews of mediocre movies. However, even when a review is negative overall, studios have few reservations about excerpting it in a way that misrepresents the critic's opinion. 162:, a would-be gangster epic that generates less heat than a nickel cigar. Fishburne's 'Bumpy' is fierce, magnetic, irresistible even… But even this actor can only do so much." As a result of these abuses, some critics now deliberately avoid colorful language in their reviews. In 2010, the pop culture magazine 724:
In the face of the extraordinary and often highly practical twentieth-century progress of the life sciences under the unifying concepts of evolution, "science" consists of quote-mining—minute searching of the biological literature—including outdated literature—for minor slips and inconsistencies and
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treatment. For example, one paper's conclusion was reported as "There is some evidence that homeopathic treatments are more effective than placebo" without the immediately following caveat "however, the strength of this evidence is low because of the low methodological quality of the trials. Studies
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Their favorite sport is stringing together quotations, carefully and sometimes expertly taken out of context, to show that nothing is really established or agreed upon among evolutionists. Some of my colleagues and myself have been amused and amazed to read ourselves quoted in a way showing that we
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ran an article in May 2013 with the subheading "Sri Lanka has the hotels, the food, the climate and the charm to offer the perfect holiday, says Ruaridh Nicoll. It's just a pity about the increasingly despotic government". A highly edited version of this piece was immediately posted on the official
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for polemically promising examples of internal arguments. These internal disagreements, fundamental to the working of all natural science, are then presented dramatically to lay audiences as evidence of the fraudulence and impending collapse of "Darwinism."
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reporting its frequent abuse by promoters with, for example, "I couldn't help feeling that, for all the energy, razzmatazz and technical wizardry, the audience had been shortchanged" being pared down to "having 'energy, razzmatazz and technical
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in which a passage is removed from its surrounding matter in such a way as to distort its intended meaning. Context may be omitted intentionally or accidentally, thinking it to be non-essential. As a fallacy, quoting out of context differs from
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had taken a review fragment of "the most confusing, asinine, ridiculous—yet somehow addictively awesome—television show of all time" and only quoted "the most addictively awesome television show of all time" in its promotional material.
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to describe a method employed by creationists to support their arguments, though it can be and often is used outside of the creation–evolution controversy. Complaints about the practice predate known use of the term:
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a B− overall and only praised the opening credits so grandiosely: "The credit sequence, with its jumpy frames and near-subliminal flashes of psychoparaphernalia, is a small masterpiece of dementia." Similarly,
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to the House of Commons Evidence Check on Homeopathy contains many examples of quote mining, where the conclusions of scientific papers were selectively quoted to make them appear to support the efficacy of
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argument, it involves quoting an opponent out of context in order to misrepresent their position (typically to make it seem more simplistic or extreme) in order to make it easier to refute. It is common in
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in a way that distorts the source's intended meaning, a practice commonly referred to as "quoting out of context". The problem here is not the removal of a quote from its original context
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prohibits contextomy, and targets companies who "falsely claim accreditation" for their products in ways that are "not being true to the terms of the endorsement". It is enforced in the
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reviews advertisements for tone and content rather than the accuracy of their citations. Some studios seek approval from the original critic before running a condensed quotation. The
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quote of "hysterically overproduced and surprisingly entertaining" was reduced to "hysterically... entertaining".
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In the United States, there is no specific law against misleading movie blurbs, beyond existing regulation over
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associates of his, and his anticipation of "painful necessity of my taking an open stand against them."
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of high methodological quality were more likely to be negative than the lower quality studies."
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Sri Lankan news portal under the heading "Sri Lanka has everything to offer perfect holiday" .
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recorded an instance of an adverb being applied to a different verb in a 2007 advert for
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reported that it had been the victim of "reckless blurbing" after the television show
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McGlone, M.S. (2005a). "Quoted out of context: Contextomy and its consequences".
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Quotemanship: The Use and Abuse of Quotations for Polemical and Other Purposes
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McGlone, Matthew S. (2005b). "Contextomy: the art of quoting out of context".
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Contextomy refers to the selective excerpting of words from their original
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One of the most familiar examples of contextomy is the ubiquitous "review
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Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed § Charles Darwin quotation issue
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Media censorship and disinformation during the Gezi Park protests
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Alternative medicine: Analysis of the evidence submitted by the
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Nothing in Biology Makes Sense Except in the Light of Evolution
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as evidence that he "did not openly oppose the anti-immigrant
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For example, the ad copy for New Line Cinema's 1995 thriller
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Creationism's Trojan Horse: The Wedge of Intelligent Design
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Arguments based on this fallacy typically take two forms:
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Excellent! Theatres forced to withdraw misleading reviews
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Reiner, L. (1996). "Why Movie Blurbs Avoid Newspapers."
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After Truth: Disinformation and the Cost of Fake News
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coined the term "contextomy" to describe its use by
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Index

Quote-mining
informal fallacy
false attribution
straw man
appeal to authority
linguistic context
Milton Mayer
Julius Streicher
Nazi
Der StĂĽrmer
Weimar
blurb
Se7en
Entertainment Weekly
United Artists
Kenneth Turan
Hoodlum
Laurence Fishburne
Vanity Fair
Lost
Carl Bialik
Live Free or Die Hard
New York Daily News
false advertising
MPAA
European Union
Unfair Commercial Practices Directive
United Kingdom
Office of Fair Trading
creation–evolution controversy

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