Propaganda This page deals with specific verbal techniques that hate groups, or any another group seeking to influence other people for that matter, may use in their web sites or other literature. Subsequent pages will highlight excerpts from specific hate sites to demonstrate what particular methods are being used.
Propaganda thus differs fundamentally from scientific analysis.
The scientist, on the other hand, is always prepared for and wants the most careful scrutiny and criticism of his facts and ideas. Science flourishes on criticism. Dangerous propaganda crumbles before it. I'd like to briefly mention some techniques of propaganda which are discussed more thoroughly off-site at Institute for Propaganda Analysis . The name-calling technique involves distracting attention away from the idea being espoused by using a word or words that paint a negative image of the person arguing the idea.