Conflate

There's a tendency to conflate proposing a solution with actually solving the problem. I think it's important to differentiate between the two.

“Bacon was Lord Chancellor of England and the first European to experiment with gunpowder.” — “No, you are conflating Francis Bacon and Roger Bacon.”

But in reality, the order simply furthers the Trump administration’s anti-immigrant policies by continuing to conflate immigration issues with criminal ones.

But again, this conflates global geographic variation with race, says Alan Goodman, a biological anthropologist at Hampshire College.

Climate skeptics have conflated the two for years, for example, pointing to cold winter weather as proof that global warming is a hoax, most likely to play on people’s confusion about the two.

“We must stop conflating selectivity with excellence. We must stop correlating prestige with privilege,” he said.

Why the redactor created this conflate version, despite its inconsistencies, is a matter of conjecture.