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> What I see instead is shills brushing off concerns with statements like "Plants have produced their own pesticides since basically ever, so there is nothing t
by seattle_spring 10y ago
> What I see instead is shills brushing off concerns with statements like "Plants have produced their own pesticides since basically ever, so there is nothing to worry about."
Ah the shill gambit [1]. When you don't have any other leg to stand on, just KO the opponent's argument by accusing them of working for the enemy!
[1] http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Shill_gambit http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Shill_gambit
- lolc 10y agoWell, do you think that it is a valid argument? I'm tired of hearing it repeated like it's some kind of deep truth even though it equates entirely different processes. I will call people shills when they're not interested in answering hard questions. Today's XKCD has basically the same argument (http://xkcd.com/1693/ http://xkcd.com/1693/).