Random Analogies
Hating The Swastika
a: Hating the swastika ~
b: hating a piece of furniture because a Nazi officer sat on it
What: "Hating the swastika is like hating a piece of furniture because a Nazi officer sat on it -- it didn't have a choice; it was used."
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Writer: Not Stated
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Date: Sep 25 2010 9:20 AM
# 592 Critique Analogy
Molecular Fossils...
a: X chromosome ~
b: fossil
What: "About half of the current X chromosome is like a fossil, having remained the same through the evolution of all mammals, even the relatively primitive marsupials. Genes on the remainder of the X in placental mammals, on the other hand, were more recently acquired from other chromosomes." Common point, they both old and have not changed for a long time. They are both "preserved" as they were in the past.
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Writer: Sharon Guynup
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Date: Dec 11 2012 2:32 PM
# 2569 Critique Analogy
A Tree Is A Tree Is A Treeee
a: Patenting a gene ~
b: trying to patent a tree
What: Or, as William Hazeltine, former Pres of HGSI says: "Trying to patent a human gene is like trying to patent a tree. You can patent a table that you build from a tree, but you cannot patent the tree itself."
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Writer: William Hazeltine
LCC: KF
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Date: May 7 2013 5:38 PM
# 2982 Critique Analogy
a: investing ~
b: marriage
What:
"In both cases, there's the courtship, the honeymoon and the reality."
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Writer: PAUL A. MERRIMAN
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Date: Feb 18 2015 11:01 AM
# 7340 Critique Analogy
