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How to Counter a Gish Gallop in a Debate or Comment Thread

September 9, 2026

Claims are cheap to make and expensive to refute. That gap is the whole engine. The Gish gallop weaponizes it: bury the other side in so many assertions that answering even half of them would burn the entire clock, then point at the unanswered pile as if silence were agreement.
— Read on fallacy.is/articles/how-to-counter-gish-gallop

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