Warp wrote:
>   This is also usually the reason why scientists and debunkers don't like
> to go to eg. discussion panels eg. in live radio against conspiracy theorists.
> The conspiracy theorists will usually have prepared a bunch of cleverly laid
> out trick questions which the debunker has never thought of before, and in
> a live situation the debunker has only a few seconds to come up with an
> answer.

Another reason is that, usually, the deck is stacked in such venues, and 
its usually far easier to spout out 10 minutes of conspiracy laden 
misinformation, logical fallacies and made up BS, than it is to spend 
the same 10 minutes debunking any of it. In some case, it could take 30 
minutes per "issue" raised by the wacko, to explain properly. Woo wins 
where there are time limits and the audience is already thinking they 
should have gone down the street to watch the strippers, than sit and 
listen to two people debate about the hollow earth theory of reptile 
world domination. There is no way in hell those people are going to sit 
through 6 hours or rebuttals, even if the hosts of the kangaroo debate 
where willing to give a scientist the time to do so.

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