The production of bullshit is stimulated whenever a person’s obligations or opportunities to speak about some topic are more excessive than his knowledge of the facts that are relevant to that topic.

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quoted in Wheels, Languages and Bullshit (Or How Not To Do Linguistic Archaeology) Jonathan Sherman Morris. Philology, vol. 3/2017, pp. 57–108

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