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* One of the [[British Political System|Labour Party]]'s attempts to persuade the British people that Tory leader David Cameron wasn't a good choice in the 2010 general election was to [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/8601781.stm depict him as] [[Life On Mars|Gene Hunt]], with a slogan saying he'd [[Ashes to Ashes|pull Britain back to the '80s]]. Conservatives [[Insult Backfire|loved the poster depicting their leader as a popular, political correctness-hating]] [[Memetic Badass]], congratulated Labour and promptly made their own version.
* Herbert Spencer, who coined the term "survival of the fittest" (no, it wasn't Darwin who said it) seemed to miss the point of Darwin's theories. Herbert Spencer rejoiced when Darwin came up with his theory of natural selection, because he took it to mean that rich people were simply "the fittest" and there is nothing wrong with the oppression of the poor since their plight shows that they are obviously just not fit enough. Thank goodness his attempts to stuff Darwin's theories into sociological theory were unsuccessful.
* [[Rudyard Kipling]]'s poem [https://web.archive.org/web/20080303213645/http://www.kipling.org.uk/poems_disciple.htm "The Disciple"] describes how this happens to religious teachings as soon as the original teacher is gone.
* Quality control on some art sites quickly devolves into this, especially when it stops being "This isn't that good, I won't take it" to "I don't like the artist, so I won't accept this".
* Erwin Schrodinger concocted his "Schrodinger's Cat" thought-experiment in 1935, purely to hang a lampshade on the failings of the 'Copenhagen interpretation' version of quantum mechanics. Physicists who advocate this paradigm tend to portray his model as a serious metaphor for quantum states, rather than a critique of how the Copenhagen interpretation was inconsistent with, and irrelevant to, classical physics.
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