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Snow Job Proving Claim Overwhelming Audience Mountains Irrelevant

Fallacy snow job
Definition and Examples “Proving” a claim by overwhelming an audience with mountains of irrelevant facts, numbers, documents, graphs and statistics that they cannot be expected to understand.

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