A PhD in nonsense

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Ophelia Benson

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This is a very very very important point.

You have to have a degree in Bullshit Studies before you can say that Bullshit Studies is bullshit.

Nah. An ideology whose foundation is an absurd lie can be tossed in the Bullshit Bin without further ado.

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7 responses to “A PhD in nonsense”

  1. tigger_the_wing Avatar
    tigger_the_wing

    Have they been taking a leaf out of the book of famous Roman Catholic apologists? Because they certainly seem to be using the exact same religious tactics as them.

  2. gary Avatar
    gary

    ‘What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence.” — Christopher Hitchens

  3. Starskeptic Avatar
    Starskeptic

    “Because you asserted it without cause, therefore also it may be denied without cause.”

    -Johann Georg Pritius (1704)

  4. gary Avatar
    gary

    I knew it was an older saying. I just remember it from Hitchens in a religious debate.

  5. Mostly Cloudy Avatar
    Mostly Cloudy

    You have to be a “trained astrologer” to criticise astrology. Yeah, right.

  6. Ophelia Benson Avatar
    Ophelia Benson

    You have to remove your genitalia before you can dispute gender ideology.

  7. Lady Mondegreen Avatar
    Lady Mondegreen

    It’s PZ Myers’s “Courtier’s Reply,” and isn’t it funny (funny peculiar, not funny ha ha) that he let himself be bamboozled by the trans empress?

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