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by DFHippie 1600 days ago
It seems to me lying with facts boils down to two techniques:

1. Misrepresenting the central tendency by presenting outliers as representative.

2. Presenting credentialed but agenda-driven authorities who argue in bad faith to affirm that these outliers are representative and pre-empt the listener's getting a competing, and actually representative, interpretation from other authorities.