"Alberto Brandolini wrote that the energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude greater than the energy needed to produce it."
Brandolini formulated his Bullshit Asymmetry Principle in January 2013. Guillaume Nicoulaud traced the original statement and confirmed the attribution with Brandolini, providing the historical source for the section's argument about the disproportionate effort required to challenge misleading narratives.
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