{"id":59950,"date":"2021-11-03T10:08:41","date_gmt":"2021-11-03T10:08:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=59950"},"modified":"2021-11-03T10:09:36","modified_gmt":"2021-11-03T10:09:36","slug":"brandolinis-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2021\/11\/03\/brandolinis-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Brandolini&#8217;s law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Malcolm Reavell introduced me to the idea of Brandolini\u2019s Law on a post on the Facebook page of Modern Money Scotland.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Brandolini%27s_law\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Wikipedia summarises the law<\/a> as follows:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>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: \"The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude larger than is needed to produce it.\"<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Trolls are, of course, aware of this. That is why pile-ons of trolls happen \u2013 no doubt coordinated by some website or other. Their simple aim is to waste time.<\/p>\n<p>This is why I always reserve the right to delete them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Malcolm Reavell introduced me to the idea of Brandolini\u2019s Law on a post on the Facebook page of Modern Money Scotland. Wikipedia summarises the law<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2021\/11\/03\/brandolinis-law\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59950\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}