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Re:NASA releases detailed global climate change projections by philh on Wednesday June 10, 2015 @11:14AM (#9692797)
I think that means: looking through the software to find something, anything, that could be used to make the researchers look bad.
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Re:NASA releases detailed global climate change projections by andyjohnson0 on Wednesday June 10, 2015 @11:34AM (#9692958)
It looks like the origin of the use of the term "quote mining" is an article [1] on ScienceBlogs. I think your interpretation of the term is in agreement with it, in this case.

[1] http://scienceblogs.com/deltoid/2009/12/01/quote-mining-code...

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Re:NASA releases detailed global climate change projections by johnchristopher on Wednesday June 10, 2015 @12:21PM (#9693344)
Thanks to both of you.
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