Brandolini's law
Brandolini's law, also known as the bullshit asymmetry principle, is an internet adage that emphasizes the difficulty of debunking false, facetious, or otherwise misleading information, especially in comparison to the difficulty of creating the misinformation in the first place. It states that "The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude larger than is needed to produce it." Origins. It was publicly formulated the first time in January 2013 by Alberto Brandolini, an Italian programmer. Brandolini stated that he was inspired by reading Daniel Kahneman's "Thinking, Fast and Slow" right before  watching an Italian political talk show with journalist Marco Travaglio and former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi attacking each other. Similar concepts. In "Economic Sophisms" (1845, 1867), Bastiat expresses an early notion of this law:We must confess that our adversaries have a marked advantage over us in the discussion. In very few words they can announce a half-truth; and in order to demonstrate that it is "incomplete", we are obliged to have recourse to long and dry dissertations. Other notable thinkers and philosophers have noted similar truths throughout history. In his 1786 "Letters on Infidelity", George Horne writes that : Mark Twain is sometimes erroneously quoted as saying that: His actual quote, dictated for his 1906 autobiography, is: A similar concept was formulated by economist Roy Radner in 1993. Radner considered the performance of an organization that processes information in terms of both the number of processors required to review data items, and the time delays associated with processing data items. In 2005, Russian physicist Sergey Lopatnikov anonymously published an essay in which he introduced the following definition: The Gish gallop, a term coined in 1994 to refer to creationism debates, is a rhetorical technique that relies on overwhelming an  opponent with specious arguments, half-truths, and misrepresentations that each require considerably more time to refute or fact-check than they did to state in the first place.