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Robert McNees Jun 18, 2023

Calls for “debate” on subjects like vaccines aren’t really invitations to communicate with a large audience. Many reasons for this, one of which is Brandolini’s Law:

The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than that needed to produce it.

The whole thing is a set-up.

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Mike Babyak

@mcnees @ampersine Hard lessons learned from the Gish “debates” in the 80s. I saw one live in grad school. Was vs a well respected paleontologist, whom we assumed would wipe the floor with Gish. To our horror we quickly realized that you can’t debate someone who has no regard for reality, let alone reason.