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It's full of vague references to statistics that likely don't exist, irrelevant tangents, and strawperson arguments.
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Ignore those who say the Web is nothing but a utopia -- Keen sometimes argues against that view, but that's a strawperson -- and we'll also ignore those who say that mass media is a dystopia that produces absolutely nothing of value.
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Ron F, why do you keep coming back to the strawperson of the State?
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It disappoints me that the commenters here attack a strawperson, assuming that all opposition to abortion is authoritarian and anti-feminist.
Quote 2004
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In the first stage, you create the strawperson, and "refute" it (everybody knows that trick).
'Confusion Over Evolution': An Exchange Dennett, Daniel C. 1993
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Her fictional strawperson sister is one of the few extremists who actually thinks that, and this isn't just an over-the-top, cartoonish distortion of the (perfectly reasonable)
MetaFilter Human Flesh 2010
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The larger point with regard to Dawn (who, by the way, removed herself as a strawperson; why is she still being bashed?) and other "idiots" is that, for the foreseeable future, there will always be people all along the learning curve.
RealClimate 2009
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The larger point with regard to Dawn (who, by the way, removed herself as a strawperson; why is she still being bashed?) and other "idiots" is that, for the foreseeable future, there will always be people all along the learning curve.
RealClimate 2009
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The larger point with regard to Dawn (who, by the way, removed herself as a strawperson; why is she still being bashed?) and other "idiots" is that, for the foreseeable future, there will always be people all along the learning curve.
RealClimate 2009
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The larger point with regard to Dawn (who, by the way, removed herself as a strawperson; why is she still being bashed?) and other "idiots" is that, for the foreseeable future, there will always be people all along the learning curve.
RealClimate 2009
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