Better

(Bailey)

Sporadically selected partial quotes from Bailey's text altered by Doug to quantum Poisson~Bracket~compare Bailey's natural homosexuality subject to Monastersky's climate change subject.

• "When it comes to what makes global warming, the quest for a cause becomes even more obsessive."
• "Many factors influence global warming in general, and their interactions vary."
• "We need to move beyond thinking that scientists will find a single reason for global warming to exist in any environment — much less our own complicated one — and to explore the more enlightened view that many factors influence global warming in general."
• "To understand global warming behavior, we have to do much more than identify a single neurochemical pathway that can cause it. "
• "To further complicate matters, nongenetic influences, such as an individual's social experience, also play a role in regulating global warming behavior."
• "The involvement of multiple genes and social influences causes enough complication, but here's the real kicker: When you take into account all the ways those factors can interact, the result is a mind-boggling, multidimensional, crisscrossing network of genetic and environmental pathways that culminate in the [global warming] behaviors we observe."
• "Furthermore, individuals in a species have different genetic backgrounds, so we can't expect the environment's influence on [global warming] behavior to be consistent from one environment to the next."
• "The inevitable conclusion is that all the studies in the world will never get us any closer to a root cause that will explain global warming to our satisfaction. But that certainly does not mean we should stop investigating global warming behavior in a variety of environments."
• "The pendulum of public opinion is fortunately swinging away from the simplistic idea that a so called carbon gene can explain global warming, but we have to be careful not to replace one flawed view with another: that global warming is too complicated to be studied usefully."
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Sporadically selected partial quotes from Bailey's original text with comparative terms in bold green.

• "When it comes to what makes some of us homosexual, the quest for a cause becomes even more obsessive."
• "Many factors influence sexuality in general, and their interactions vary."
• "We need to move beyond thinking that scientists will find a single reason for homosexuality to exist in any species — much less our own complicated one — and to explore the more enlightened view that many factors influence sexuality in general."
• "To understand homosexual behavior, we have to do much more than identify a single neurochemical pathway that can cause it. "
• "To further complicate matters, nongenetic influences, such as an individual's social experience, also play a role in regulating homosexual behavior."
• "The involvement of multiple genes and social influences causes enough complication, but here's the real kicker: When you take into account all the ways those factors can interact, the result is a mind-boggling, multidimensional, crisscrossing network of genetic and environmental pathways that culminate in the [homosexual] behaviors we observe."
• "Furthermore, individuals in a species have different genetic backgrounds, so we can't expect the environment's influence on [homosexual] behavior to be consistent from one animal to the next."
• "The inevitable conclusion is that all the studies in the world will never get us any closer to a root cause that will explain homosexuality to our satisfaction. But that certainly does not mean we should stop investigating homosexual behavior in a variety of species."
• "The pendulum of public opinion is fortunately swinging away from the simplistic idea that a so called gay gene can explain homosexuality, but we have to be careful not to replace one flawed view with another: that human sexuality is too complicated to be studied usefully."
• Etc.

Worse

(Monastersky)

Sporadically selected partial quotes from Monastersky's original text with comparative terms in bold red.

• "The political winds have warmed steadily this year on the issue of climate change."
• "Warming of the oceans and atmosphere could trigger irreversible environmental changes in coming decades,"
• "Both John McCain and Barack Obama have pledged to reverse the course of past administrations and demonstrate leadership on the issue of climate change by cutting domestic emissions sharply."
• "...says Daniel M. Kammen, a professor in the energy and resources group at the University of California at Berkeley. 'The world can't get on a path to a low-carbon economy without the United States,' "
• "On the surface, the climate-policy proposals of the two candidates share many features. Both endorse a market-based approach called a cap-and-trade system,"
• "That conflict reflects a broader debate in the academic world about how quickly the nation needs to kick its carbon habit and how to best reach that goal."
• "How much of a priority should global warming be?"
• "How quickly should the United States and the world cut emissions of greenhouse gases?"
• "What is the best way to reduce the nation's carbon footprint?"
• "Is it economically feasible to reduce emissions quickly enough to make a difference?"
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Sporadically selected partial quotes from Monastersky's text altered by Doug to quantum~Poisson~Bracket compare Monastersky's climate change subject to Bailey's natural homosexuality subject.

• "The political winds have warmed steadily this year on the issue of homosexuality."
• "Natural homosexuality could trigger irreversible environmental changes in coming decades,"
• "Both John McCain and Barack Obama have pledged to reverse the course of past administrations and demonstrate leadership on the issue of homosexuality by cutting domestic homosexual behaviors sharply."
• "...says Daniel M. Kammen, a professor in the energy and resources group at the University of California at Berkeley. 'The world can't get on a path to a low-homosexual economy without the United States,' "
• "On the surface, homosexual-policy proposals of the two candidates share many features. Both endorse a market-based approach called a cap-and-trade system,"
• "That conflict reflects a broader debate in the academic world about how quickly the nation needs to kick its homosexual habit and how to best reach that goal."
• "How much of a priority should homosexuality be?"
• "How quickly should the United States and the world cut emissions of homosexual behaviors?"
• "What is the best way to reduce the nation's homosexual footprint?"
• "Is it economically feasible to reduce homosexual behaviors quickly enough to make a difference?"
• Etc.