The new RealClimate blog has a nice example of Fox using a truncated quotation to imply that the author meant the opposite of what he really intended. What was quoted, "Any prudent person would agree that we don't yet understand the complexities with the climate system."
The full quotation, "Any prudent person would agree that we don't yet understand the complexities with the climate system and, since we don't, we should be extremely cautious in how much we 'tweak' the system."
The intent of the speaker was to warn against "tweaking" the system by adding greenhouse gases without knowing what we are really doing. What Fox implied the speaker was saying was that we shouldn't attempt to reduce greenhouse gases.
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