Gish galloping successfully vanquished

Daniel Ryan — Sun, 07 Jun 2015 10:58:25 +0000

We have had plenty of gish gallopers on the Making Sense of Fluoride Facebook page and dealing with one is usually a waste of time. You would spend many long hours reading and then debunking materials. Rinse and repeat. Sometimes if you are quick enough you get a nice win.

The Gish Gallop is the debating technique of drowning the opponent in such a torrent of small arguments that their opponent cannot possibly answer or address each one in real-time. More often than not, these myriad arguments are full of half-truths, lies, and straw-man arguments — the only condition is that there be many of them, not that they be particularly compelling on their own.Rational Wiki

Most posts start innocently enough like so…

At the time I was busy so I left a polite message and that was when the gish galloping started.

Tackling the original post.

My reply to the gish galloping.

This is where I would usually stop but I thought this time I’ll see how far I get. Now for the painful part, hunting down every abstract. If the abstract wasn’t descriptive enough, trying to find the full paper. In the end I looked at every reference.

Successfully vanquished.

Read the full Facebook thread here.

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