Grist: The difficulties in debunking blatant anti-reality are legion. You can make up any old nonsense and state it in a few seconds, but it takes much longer to show why its wrong and how things really are.
This is coupled with how sticky bunk can be. Once uttered, its out there, bootstrapping its own reality, getting repeated by the usual suspects.
Case in point: The claim that theres been no global warming for the past 16 years. This is blatantly untrue, a ridiculous and obviously false statement....