shadowrun456 t1_ix8kb1l wrote
Reply to comment by [deleted] in The truth about conspiracy theories - We must be open and critical towards all theories. Dismissing putative conspiracy theories while failing to properly interrogate pseudoscience dangerous and irrational. by IAI_Admin
>is a strawman argument
You don't know what a straw-man argument is, if you think this was a straw-man argument. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man
A straw-man is purposefully misstating someone else's argument. I wasn't even talking about someone else's argument.
>is defeatist
In theory, yes. In practice, have you ever actually tried debunking stuff that paid trolls post? I did. A troll posted a chart with fake data. It took me 4-5 hours to collect actual data, and draw an actual chart. I went back and posted my reply. I checked the troll's post history. During the 4-5 hours I took to debunk their one post, they have made 57 (yes, I counted) similar posts of disinformation. Assuming I did nothing but debunked posts by this single troll for 12 hours a day, it would have taken me 20 days to debunk what they posted during only 4-5 hours of their time.
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