How to Call Out Bad Ideas
If you have ever been convinced of or swayed by some presentation of information that you later found out was BS, welcome to life. While BS has, in the last several decades, most prominently been spewed forth as corporate jargon or postmodern solipsisms, a new wave of BS now aggravates us and threatens our progress. This new kind of BS hides behind the language of mathematics, statistics, and science to construct an image of veracity. Whereas old BS looked…