Ooh, here's another good example of 'the media' not presenting the whole 
story, skewing what people think of something:

http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,504423,00.html

has a quote markedly absent in most of the other 'wa ha, humans are 
smarter than apes', namely "Human children are not overall more 
intelligent than other primates," concluded the lead researcher, Esther 
Herrmann of Germany's Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology 
in Leipzig, "but instead have specialized skills of social cognition. 
They learn in a way that chimpanzees don't learn."

then there's this gem, a comment by another scientist in the same field:

http://news.google.com/nwshp?client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&oe=UTF-8&channel=s&tab=wn&ned=us&ncl=1120425672&hl=en&btclp=1&scoring=r

-- 
Tim Cook
http://home.bellsouth.net/p/PWP-empyrean

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