Libby
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Liberal Jewish Southerner. Retired news writer for a public university where I covered science research/the arts. Fed up w/ cults, fascists, oligarchs, extremists, purity tests, useful idiots & antisemites. Trying to leave my grandkids a better world.🇮🇱🇺🇦☮️
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There's a name for that, Gish Gallop.
![The Gish gallop is a rhetorical technique in which a person in a debate attempts to overwhelm an opponent by presenting an excessive number of arguments, without regard for their accuracy or strength, with a rapidity that makes it impossible for the opponent to address them in the time available. Gish galloping prioritizes the quantity of the galloper's arguments at the expense of their quality.
The term "Gish gallop" was coined in 1994 by the anthropologist Eugenie Scott who named it after the American creationist Duane Gish, dubbed the technique's "most acid practitioner".[1]
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October 12, 2025 at 12:59 PM
There's a name for that, Gish Gallop.
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