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    Literally all RFK Jr. has to do is throw endless  
    nonsense against the wall

    refute all 30 of these, NOW, and if you can’t then 
    clearly you don’t know anything and RFK Jr. wins.

Also known as the "Gish gallop" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gish_gallop

It's the reason why we can't have rational public debate and why dreams of "unfettered free speech" leading to an "enlightened marketplace of ideas" don't tend to pan out in reality.

Speaking a falsehood is vastly easier than disproving a falsehood.

And for any nontrivial topic, the uninformed public will not be qualified to discern which side is telling the truth.

Reminds me of how moon landing hoax and flat earth people debate.

I have no dog in this fight, but...

Literally all Rogan or RFKJR would have to do is play one of the video mashups on youtube that show Hotez repeatedly contradicting himself.

> Literally all RFK Jr. has to do is throw endless nonsense against the wall, doesn’t have to be consistent with itself, doesn’t have to come from real sources, and just trip up the PhD on one single issue. Then he can spike the football and claim victory. It’s an impossible setup.

These are classic approaches to demagoguery, commonly known as the Gish Gallop & Brandolini's Law

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandolini%27s_law

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gish_gallop

NGT also does not like debates as he explains in this clip:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0B7ILBquRo

You just described how right-wing "debate" works. There's a reason the most popular examples are Ben Shapiro going to a college campus and using rhetorical tricks to dunk on students who are prepared for an honest discussion, not intellectual subterfuge.

This is also why Shapiro has cultivated the fine art of speaking in such a rapid-fire, grating tone. He wants listening carefully to him to be as uncomfortable as possible.