re: #150 TedStriker

The Gish Gallop is perfectly suited for venues where both sides are time-limited (radio/TV appearances, presidential debates, etc.), not so much when there’s time to pick it apart…and even that’s difficult at best.

There’s a lot of reasons why it’s an effective technique in the US, and sadly one of them is the poor science education that many students in the US get. This has been exacerbated by the GOP’s push against teaching evolution, climate change, and any other sort of science that offends them, but it’s also just from long-standing problems in the way we teach science here in the US. We also don’t teach logic and rhetoric in school the way that we should.

But again, the hyper-religious segment of the US is strongly against that, because logic and rhetoric tend to upset the apple-carts of ‘revealed truth’ religions.