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  • "Conflation" is a composite reading or blending of issues - kind of like when you continually "mislead" people that Cheney and Bush said Saddam was responsible for 9/11.

    Cheney admits Saddam-9/11 link was bunk (Jack Bog's Blog) 2009

  • "Conflation" is a composite reading or blending of issues - kind of like when you continually "mislead" people that Cheney and Bush said Saddam was responsible for 9/11. kind of like when Bush, Cheney, and Rice all conflated -- in public, on the record, repeatedly -- 9/11, Hussein, and al Quaeda. if you're unwilling to accept the record -- which is ridiculously easy to find, in a few minutes, using Google -- I don't know what to tell you.

    Cheney admits Saddam-9/11 link was bunk (Jack Bog's Blog) 2009

  • Conflation: Conflation occurs when concepts, sharing some characteristics of one another, become confused until there seems to be only a single identity — the differences appear to become lost.

    ‘Disparaging remarks, rhetorical flourishes are not going to help us get to the bottom of this issue’ - Beyond The Commons - Macleans.ca 2009

  • Conflation: Conflation occurs when concepts, sharing some characteristics of one another, become confused until there seems to be only a single identity - the differences appear to become lost.

    Liblogs.ca latest blog entries 2009

  • That prize-winning "Conflation" then gives post-doc student Tom Aldous the key to work out how to produce clean energy by mimicking the process of photosynthesis in the vegetable kingdom, and releasing usable quantities of hydrogen from water.

    From Steamy Italy to Frozen Fjords Paul Levy 2010

  • That prize-winning "Conflation" then gives post-doc student Tom Aldous the key to work out how to produce clean energy by mimicking the process of photosynthesis in the vegetable kingdom, and releasing usable quantities of hydrogen from water.

    From Steamy Italy to Frozen Fjords Paul Levy 2010

  • That prize-winning "Conflation" then gives post-doc student Tom Aldous the key to work out how to produce clean energy by mimicking the process of photosynthesis in the vegetable kingdom, and releasing usable quantities of hydrogen from water.

    From Steamy Italy to Frozen Fjords Paul Levy 2010

  • “Solar” is a book that tells a story narrated by Michael Beard, a Nobel prize winner in quantum physics for a brilliant idea called the Conflation, which modified the way in which a part of Einstein’s work had been believed to be true, and thus changed the understanding of the interaction between matter and electronic radiation.

    “Solar” by Ian McEwan - Published by Jonathan Cape 2010 - Hard cover edition £18.99 Rene Meertens 2010

  • “Solar” is a book that tells a story narrated by Michael Beard, a Nobel prize winner in quantum physics for a brilliant idea called the Conflation, which modified the way in which a part of Einstein’s work had been believed to be true, and thus changed the understanding of the interaction between matter and electronic radiation.

    Archive 2010-06-01 Rene Meertens 2010

  • For surely, if specimens in St. Matthew and St. John had abounded to his hand, and accordingly 'Conflation' had been largely employed throughout the Gospels, Dr. Hort would not have exercised so restricted, and yet so round a choice.

    The Causes of the Corruption of the Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels Being the Sequel to The Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels John William Burgon 1850

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