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Manbearpig

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It is a poisoning the well argument


This person is affiliated with A therefore B is false.

Happens all the time for stuff like vaccine denial, gmo crops, climate change, etc. Basically, when you don't have an actual argument you attack other things.

(In response to this post by Beerman)

Posted: 10/05/2018 at 1:57PM



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