re: #168 Obdicut

I don’t think there is any effective response to the Gish Gallop. When you’re time-limited, you’re not going to be able to knock all their shit down. Maybe getting angry would work, maybe appealing to the host. I dunno. I’ve never seen it successfully countered.

If they can’t respond effectively, or neutralize it by setting debate rules, then they just shouldn’t debate. It’s a stupid waste of time. It doesn’t help the pro-science side at all…I would say on balance it probably hurts the science side more than refusing to debate would. The place to fight this battle is in the courts where the Gish debate style counts for nothing.