the act or process of combining two or more separate things into one whole, especially pieces of text or ideas

The term "clean coal" is a deliberate and misleading conflation of two very separate technologies. “洁净煤”一词是两种截然不同的技术的蓄意和误导性混合。

This is a great example of conflation and confusion of sources. 这是个归并出处导致混淆的典型例子。