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> Fact-checking is more time consuming than making things up. AKA the "bullshit asymmetry principle" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullshit#Bullshit_asymmetry
by davidw 7y ago
> Fact-checking is more time consuming than making things up.
AKA the "bullshit asymmetry principle"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullshit#Bullshit_asymmetry_principle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullshit#Bullshit_asymmetry_pr...
"Both sidesism" is a closely related problem.
"We interviewed Elena, a geophysicist, about the different ways scientists collect data about the planet we live on and the cosmos it's situated in. On the other side, Bob from the internet offers his theory about the earth being flat".