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Renewable energy increased the cost of energy
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Transgender advocacy exploiting the mentally ill abusing children
Appeasement foreign policy causing wars in the Middle East and Ukraine
A massive expansion of government based on debt causing inflation
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Shutting down the government twice
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The Gish Gallop - and Brandolini's Law - Information for the Future of Arcata
The Gish Gallop is a rhetorical technique in which a person attempts to overwhelm their opponent by providing an excessive number of arguments with no regard for the accuracy or strength of those arguments.
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What is the “Gish Gallop” ?
The Gish Gallop is a rhetorical technique in which a person attempts to overwhelm their opponent by providing an excessive number of arguments with no regard for the accuracy or strength of those arguments.
During a Gish Gallop, a debater confronts an opponent with a rapid series of many specious arguments, half-truths, misrepresentations, and outright lies, which makes it impossible for the opponent to refute all of them.
In essence, it is prioritizing quantity of one’s arguments at expense of quality of the arguments.
The term was coined in 1994 by anthropologist Eugenie Scott, who named it after American creationist Duane Gish and argued that Gish used the technique frequently when challenging the scientific fact of evolution.
Each point raised by the Gish galloper takes considerably more time to refute or fact-check than it did to state in the first place, which is known online as Brandolini’s law.
The technique wastes an opponent’s time and may cast doubt on the opponent’s debating ability, especially if no independent fact-checking is involved or if the audience has limited knowledge of the topics.
And what is Brandolini’s Law ?
Brandolini’s law, also known as the B.S. Asymmetry Principle, is an internet adage that emphasizes the effort of debunking misinformation, in comparison to the relative ease of creating it in the first place.
It states:
The amount of energy needed to refute b.s. is an order of magnitude larger (that is, ten times larger) than is needed to produce it.
