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NL888 Posted 14 years ago
Grammar
What does " a specialty of" mean?
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To begin to answer those questions we need to roll the clock back a few months. In a Forbes.com article earlier this year, we speculated that Séralini was less guilty of actually fudging data to get the desired answer than of performing poorly designed experiments and grossly misrepresenting the results. (Séralini has made a specialty of methodologically flawed, irrelevant, uninterpretable — but over-interpreted — experiments intended to demonstrate harm from genetically engineered plants and the herbicide glyphosate in various highly contrived scenarios.)
To begin to answer those questions we need to roll the clock back a few months. In a Forbes.com article earlier this year, we speculated that Séralini was less guilty of actually fudging data to get the desired answer than of performing poorly designed experiments and grossly misrepresenting the results. (Séralini has made a specialty of methodologically flawed, irrelevant, uninterpretable — but over-interpreted — experiments intended to demonstrate harm from genetically engineered plants and the herbicide glyphosate in various highly contrived scenarios.)
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A specialty is what a person specializes in. A specialist is an expert in one narrow field (his specialty), and a generalist does many things. The writer was being sarcastic.
- A specialty is what a person specializes in.
- A specialist is an expert in one narrow field (his specialty), and a generalist does many things.
- The writer was being sarcastic.
- He claims that the crooked scientist excels in fraud.
- He has made fraud his specialty.
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A specialty is what a person specializes in. A specialist is an expert in one narrow field (his specialty), and a generalist does many things. The writer was being sarcastic. He claims that the crooked scientist excels in fraud. He has made fraud his specialty. He has made fraud into a specialty. He has made a specialty of fraud.
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NL888has made a specialty ofhas focused almost exclusively on
NL888[ has made a specialty] [ of methodologically flawed, irrelevant, ...]~ has made [ methodologically flawed, irrelevant, ... ] a specialty.
~ has achieved notoriety for his connection with [ methodologically flawed, irrelevant, ... ]
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