Reuland on Witt's Quote Mining

Steve Reuland has a post at his own blog following up on my discussion of Jonathan Witt's terrible argumens on Tiktaalik roseae. He includes a quote from Henry Gee, who was quoted in a misleading manner by Witt in his post, slamming the DI for continually taking his words out of context.

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