Hoax [thing] is also a good way to bury real [thing] by simply casting a shadow of doubt over all occurrences. Just like articles that portray themselves as pro

Hoax [thing] is also a good way to bury real [thing] by simply casting a shadow of doubt over all occurrences. Just like articles that portray themselves as pro or against something but use arguments that are so ridiculous that they make you doubt the validity of the original claims even when it comes attached to real arguments. Earlier today a pro-feminism article on HN used the argument that phones are so big because that's the limit of what a man can use with one hand. This of course completely ignored the fact that average US/world male height is ~1.75m which makes the average phone (5.5") also too big for their hands. A casual "on the fence" reader could very easily conclude that feminism is made up or just a pile of BS, and this discredits many valid future arguments and articles by mere association. And you can do this for any topic.