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See also, Gish Gallop: https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Gish_Gallop

> The Gish Gallop is the fallacious debate tactic of drowning your opponent in a flood of individually-weak arguments in order to prevent rebuttal of the whole argument collection without great effort.

> The Gish Gallop is a conveyor belt-fed version of the on-the-spot fallacy, as it's unreasonable for anyone to have a well-composed answer immediately available to every argument present in the Gallop.



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