Reply #150: Bull.

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1. NOAA said that, among other things, the oil was dispersed.

These scientists have found a plume of dispersed oil.

How is "dispersed oil" something so radically different "oil that is dispersed" that we conclude the former is honest and the latter duplicitous?

2. The NOAA said, among other things, that much of what was released through the well bore was dissolved.

These scientists have said that much of the gaseous components is dissolved.

What, we're going to define "dissolved" to mean "magically vanished into e-space via the space/time vortex" but, for these scientists, decide it must mean "present in the gaps between the water molecules in the Gulf"?

I mean, I've seen some pretty egregious examples of out-and-out ill will, where we make every assumption possible to cast what's said or done in the most negative light possible so as to feel self-righteous. But in this case, we're saying we must take the exact same phrases used in the same contexts to mean entirely different, opposite things. Why? Because we assume that somebody must be lying.