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Brandolini's law, also known as the bullshit 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 that "The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than that needed to produce it".

Thibaud70 7 Mar 1
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That's why we're losing...

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A librarian plagiarist, no less.

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A concept like "plagiarism" only exists in contexts like academia or literature, not on social media where anybody can post anything... nonsense, BS, fake news, jokes,....

@Thibaud70 No, the concept of "plagiarism" isn't suspended at your convenience, it even has its own name, "cyber-plagiarism". It may be unlikely to be prosecuted within the social media context, but it remains a matter of integrity and credibility so I can understand why it wouldn't register with you.

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finally a Perpetual Emotion Machine.

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Very like the Gish Gallop, which relies on the fact that it takes far longer to refute a false statement, than it does to make it.

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" The Gish gallop is a rhetorical technique in which a person in a debate attempts to overwhelm their opponent by providing an excessive number of arguments with no regard for the accuracy or strength of those arguments. In essence, it is prioritizing quantity of one's arguments at the expense of quality of said 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. It is similar to another debating method called spreading, in which one person speaks extremely fast in an attempt to cause their opponent to fail to respond to all the arguments that have been raised.

During a Gish gallop, a debater confronts an opponent with a rapid series of many specious arguments, half-truths, misrepresentations, and outright lies in a short space of time, which makes it impossible for the opponent to refute all of them within the format of a formal debate. 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 for an audience unfamiliar with the technique, especially if no independent fact-checking is involved or if the audience has limited knowledge of the topics."

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