Diluting lies with verifiable but only tangentially related truths is a well-established tactic to fooling humans as well. Someone with an agenda in the symbol

Diluting lies with verifiable but only tangentially related truths is a well-established tactic to fooling humans as well. Someone with an agenda in the symbolic vs statistic AI question could take this parallel as an example of how close ontology-based AI approaches are to the way humans think. And then someone with the opposite agenda would point out that the example is all hypothetical.