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Bullshit

Originally a type of social game, today it is primarily used as a collective term for various manipulative rhetorical techniques in which the focus is not on finding the truth but on distracting from the topic of the discussion.

Other names

  • Malarkey
  • Bunkum
  • Humbug

FIXME: This article is still under construction and thus unfinished.

More information

  • On Bullshit; Frankfurt, Harry G., 1988, Cambridge University Press (Internet Archive)

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