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> it's not good to cherry-pick paragraphs from the whole artile

Isn't that exactly what you just did?

There's nothing wrong with showing only small quotes, the problem would be cherry picking them in a way that leads people to draw incorrect conclusions about the whole.




Which is what I demonstrated the parent poster did.


They were using a quote from the article to support their own point, not stating that it represented the article's overall conclusion.




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