What is the best approach for dealing with sophists who make specious arguments that sound sophisticated to less informed audiences? Ignore them, debate them, mock them, or what?
Hm, thinking this through another approach might be to respond with further sophistry yourself but dressed up as a specific technical complaint. "IYI you are failing to consider fat tails! [Start spouting mathematics]" This will make *both* of you look like bullshitters though.