Conservatives have figured out a neat little rhetorical trick: One - TopicsExpress



          

Conservatives have figured out a neat little rhetorical trick: One lie is easy for your opponents to debunk. Tell one lie after another, however, and your opponent’s debunkings will never catch up.... .... Science educator Eugenie Scott deemed the technique the “Gish Gallop... a technique that “involves spewing so much bullshit in such a short span that your opponent can’t address let alone counter all of it.” Often users of the Gish Gallop know their arguments are nonsense or made in bad faith, but don’t particularly care because they are so dead set on advancing their agenda.... Here are just a few of the most disturbing examples of the Gish Gallop in action...
Posted on: Wed, 14 Jan 2015 07:16:46 +0000

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