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Skepticism, Science & Pseudoscience

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5. No, it's all the written equivalent of the Gish Gallop debate technique

Fri Nov 9, 2012, 12:47 AM

Nov 2012

Overwhelm people with a page and a half long post of one bullshit idea after another and few will read it all, let alone bother to answer any of it.

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"That universe is driven by electromagnetic energy carried on vast plasma currents" [View all] muriel_volestrangler Nov 2012 OP

Proof of that claim can probably be found DavidDvorkin Nov 2012 #1

I don't know what one can respond to that! LeftishBrit Nov 2012 #2

Mr "electric universe" has been here before Warpy Nov 2012 #3

I remember getting into it with him back then... meeshrox Nov 2012 #4

Yes, it's difficult to deal with... meeshrox Nov 2012 #6

I called another poster on exactly that Warpy Nov 2012 #7