![]() It’s full of details that the vast majority of non-experts couldn’t care less about. It sounded good, especially to people who were already predisposed toward Dr. But for the debates or even talks that Duane Gish was a part of, that didn’t matter. Actually, my understanding now is that the Gish Gallop isn’t as effective a debating technique, in formal debates with points awarded. It’s a way to score points in a system that awards such things. In almost every case, there’s no evidence at all.īut the point of the Gish Gallop isn’t to talk about evidence or even discuss a concept. There’s no evidence that the claims are correct. He doesn’t discuss evidence or support any of the claims. Gish could make a hundred or more claims. Eugenie Scott, is when the debater basically flings so much crap out that the opponent doesn’t have a hope of addressing all of them. If reality was determined by debates, then I would be writing this book to laugh at the evolution supports, largely because of Dr. Gish (biochemistry, UC Berkley – 1953) was, without a doubt, a fine speaker and debater. The Gish Gallop is named after the late Duane Gish, a young Earth creationist and vice president of the Institute for Creation Research. The first of these is what I consider the most fun and it’s really quite effective if you aren’t watching for it. This first post is about two very basic tactics in print and on-line debates: The Gish Gallop and Goal Post Shifting. ![]() Since a few very well known writers have also done this sort of book recently, I’ll just make some posts about them here. Creationists, anti-GMO, anti-vaccine, and anti-AGW and many other smaller niche groups use tactics that are surprisingly effective, while being completely wrong. The topic of the book was going to be how the various denialist groups use similar tactics. I’m not going to do as some “authors” have done and create a book that is just a collection of blog posts (that can be read for free). Blog posts are generally thematic, but shorter and independent of each other. Sadly, I tend to do much better writing blog posts.
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