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Even experts can be tricked by meaningless babble uttered by a slick BS artist

"An empty presentation delivered by a charismatic speaker can impress even an experienced audience," says Greg Ross of the Futility Closet, in his post about the "Dr. Fox Effect."

This [Rockwell Retro Encabulator] presentation, an in-joke among engineers, is technobabble but manages to seem oddly persuasive. In 1970, John Ware and Reed Williams of the ...