Carl T. Bergstrom on Nostr: There's a curious new rhetorical strategy I'm encountering more and more often in ...
There's a curious new rhetorical strategy I'm encountering more and more often in online spaces wherein ignorance about a claim is taken to refute it. It goes a bit like the script below. It's the death-of-expertise script, but with an additional twist.
Has anyone written about this?
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