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Rhetoric
Thanks for joining the Epistemologers for a rant about rhetoric!
During one conversation with climate scientists we encountered at least one of each of the tricks on this list:
1. Projection. Claiming you're doing something they're actually doing.
2. Elitism. Derisively looking down on you for whatever reason.
3. Logic fail. Treating even the simplest logical structure as inscrutable.
4. Failure to explain. Claims and charts that aren't coupled with good explanations.
5. Appeals to authority.
a. Government agency's official statement treated as certain.
b. Puffing themselves up to seem important.
c. Demands trust merely because one's an expert.
6. Demands for peer-review. Implies that only peer-reviewed papers are valuable.
7. Peanut gallery. Dropping in just to say something disparaging.
8. Ignoring points. Repeatedly asking for answers already delivered.
9. Appeal to emotion. Attempts to make you angry just to trip you up.
10. Error honeybadgering. Breathlessly rooting around for errors in what you're saying, but is used only to discredit you.
11. Peer-approved. A gang of peers jump in to endorse and back-up each other.
12. Snaring. Accuses you of using silence to dodge questions.
13. Pretend paragon. Claims to practice the virtues you espouse, but just drops them when convenient.
14. Demands evidence. Attempts to lead you into a justification trap.
15. Expects justification. Treats your running over the logic of an explanation has circular reasoning.
16. Humor nazis. Treats your well-meaning attempts at lightening up the conversation as not taking it seriously.
17. Unexamined philosophy. Uncritically carries the same underlying bad philosophy as their peers.
18. Can't complain. Your resistance to the mistakes listed here is called being "anti-science", or "in denial".
19. Woe is me. Complains that people don't believe or trust them and calls that abuse.
20. Demands knowledge proof. Will not discuss anything with you unless you pass their tests. Their r..
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