> a paper said this so it must be true Who, other than you, claimed this? Coming up with a dumb thing someone else could say, but has in fact not, is not rhet

> a paper said this so it must be true Who, other than you, claimed this? Coming up with a dumb thing someone else could say, but has in fact not, is not rhetoric. It’s not insightful. It’s beating a straw man like a piñata.