Re:NASA releases detailed global climate change projections
by andyjohnson0 on Wednesday June 10, 2015 @11:34AM
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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...