selective quotation

Eli has a wonderful post on the McLean mess. So wonderful I can't resist ripping bits of it off :-). McLean et al. quote: "But as it is written, the current paper [Foster et al. draft critique] almost stoops to the level of "blog diatribe". The current paper does not read like a peer-reviewed journal article. The tone is sometimes dramatic and sometimes accusatory. It is inconsistent with the language one normally encounters in the objectively-based, peer-reviewed literature." But oddly enough they don't continue the quotation... The real mystery here, of course, is how the McLean et al.…