Ockham's Razor is a concept put forward by William of Ockham in the 1300s, that the simplest explanation for a phenomenon is the most likely to be correct. From the Merriam-Webster Dictionary:
Definition of Occam's razor:
a scientific and philosophical rule that entities should not be multiplied unnecessarily which is interpreted as requiring that the simplest of competing theories be preferred to the more complex or that explanations of unknown phenomena be sought first in terms of known quantities.
The way Republicans and the radical right offer explanation, especially media personalities like Tucker Carlson (there was no insurrection, etc.), Sean Hannity (Trump's Big Lie that he didn't lose to Biden, etc.), Laura Ingraham (Democrats are socialists, hydroxychoroquine, etc.), Alex Jones ("crisis actors" fake they are victims of school shootings, etc.) to me is more an example of
Ockham's Junkyard:
that the most convoluted, fabulist, insane, ridiculous, and fact-less explanation is the truth.
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