New term proposal for a type of motivated skepticism: Hate Read. Hate reading is when you meticulously read an article with conclusions you hate so you can discover its flaws and thus disregard the conclusion. - @ImHardcory
Some people also hate-follow on twitter - @Scientific_Bird
funny enough The Art of Hate-Reading is dated 1/12 at jezbel.com
also QTWAIN:
In British newspapers, there is a longstanding technique of obscuring a paucity of evidence in support of a preposterous thesis by posing it as a question. It’s been dubbed by the political commentator John Rentoul “Questions to Which the Answer is No” (QTWAIN). - Conspiracism at the Atlanticnot just in British though, and not just in the newspapers. i saw it used liberally in Messing With the Enemy
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