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Examples
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Gadflies complain about "achievement," ignoring a substantial difference in the drop-out rate.
Stephen Downes: Deinstitutionalizing Education Stephen Downes 2010
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Hemlock for Gadflies wrote on September 21, 2007 3: 10 PM:
Election Central | Talking Points Memo | Rudy: 9/11 Changed My Mind On Gun Control 2009
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Gadflies are seldom taken seriously even when their points are valid.
Serving process on the Chief Justice — at his home. Ann Althouse 2009
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I guess what bothered me about this post was not your critcism of this particular Gadfly, but the general attacks you made upon Gadflies in general.
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I have known lots of conservative Gadflies who on the local city level has devoted lots of time and energy holding city politicians to account in often nearly empty meeting rooms.
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Still often I have found the Gadflies successful in showing the local government's arrogance, and indeed uncovering inapproprate behavior.
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Gadflies are up against people who have much more resources than they do.
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Gadflies point to the landscape of low-energy manifestations of string theory as the nail in the coffin for any hopes to uniquely predict new particle physics from string theory.
Arguments For Things I Don’t Believe, 1: Research on String Theory is Largely a Waste of Time Sean 2007
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What a hoot, Gadflies Anonymous needs to start a chapter at the NC Congress -- that's assuming they can get on the CROWDED, circle-jerk agenda.
Winds of change - Neighborhood Council Senate to meet at City Hall 2007
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He has also made Mayor Sam's Gadflies list with his very own blog.
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