Elliot Temple (‘curi’) misquotes David Deutsch again

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A‧conspiracy‧theory‧is↵
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▪‧an‧explanation‧of‧observed‧events‧in‧current‧affairs‧and‧history‧…‧which↵
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▪‧alleges‧that‧those‧events‧were‧planned‧and‧caused‧in‧secret‧by‧powerful‧(or↵

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▪‧allegedly‧powerful)‧conspirators,‧who‧thereby…↵
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▪‧benefit‧at‧the‧expense‧of‧others,‧and‧who‧therefore…↵
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▪‧lie,‧and‧suppress‧evidence,‧about‧their‧secret‧actions,‧and…↵
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▪‧lie‧about‧the‧motives‧for‧their‧public‧actions.

A‧conspiracy‧theory‧is↵
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an‧explanation‧of‧observed‧events‧in‧current‧affairs‧and‧history‧…‧which↵
↵

▪‧

alleges‧that‧those‧events‧were‧planned‧and‧caused‧in‧secret‧by‧powerful‧(or

↵
↵
▪

‧allegedly‧powerful)‧conspirators,‧who‧thereby…↵
↵

▪‧

benefit‧at‧the‧expense‧of‧others,‧and‧who‧therefore…↵
↵

▪‧

lie,‧and‧suppress‧evidence,‧about‧their‧secret‧actions,‧and…↵
↵

▪‧

lie‧about‧the‧motives‧for‧their‧public‧actions.

Notes

Temple introduces list markers where the original source has none. He also splits a single list item into two because he uncritically copied the line break from the original PDF. After checking that quote, I briefly skimmed the rest of Temple’s article (literally only about 5 seconds of effort). The article contains more mistakes that aren’t misquotes. For example, he writes “companies like DuPont)” where the closing parenthesis should be part of the link. As a result, the link is broken. He also writes “many people were't keeping quiet” (typo “were't”). Again, I haven’t read the rest, but my instinctual guess is that Temple is trying to preemptively address criticisms he might receive because I called him out on a false conspiracy theory of his (see here and here) and he needs to make it work somehow. Another ~10 seconds of effort revealed a paragraph that sound like he thinks of himself as brave for resisting my legal complaint after he defamed me (he specifically links to an article about me and that issue in that same paragraph).