# What to you is the epitome of bullshit? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [February 15, 2012, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-to-you-is-the-epitome-of-bullshit/612890 "2012-02-15T03:16:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2012, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-to-you-is-the-epitome-of-bullshit/612890/81 "2012-02-17T00:09:30Z")
No Child Left Behind. ---
**Author:** ![Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/f04885/32.png) [@Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qin_Shi_Huangdi)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2012, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-to-you-is-the-epitome-of-bullshit/612890/82 "2012-02-17T04:46:44Z")
Marxism. ---
**Author:** ![Argent\_Towers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e8c25b/32.png) [@Argent\_Towers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Argent_Towers)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2012, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-to-you-is-the-epitome-of-bullshit/612890/83 "2012-02-17T16:48:26Z")
Gender identity politics - this has got to be the most pedantic, pretentious, tedious discipline there is. I can’t stomach any so-called “academic” discussion of gender, filled with obtuse jargon and half-baked theories…it drives me nuts. ---
**Author:** ![Toucanna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3bc359/32.png) [@Toucanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Toucanna)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2012, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-to-you-is-the-epitome-of-bullshit/612890/84 "2012-02-17T18:23:57Z")
[QUOTE=emmaliminal] …I am in heaven. [/QUOTE] Ik hou van je, mijn Google-meester!\* ---
**Author:** ![joyfool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2012, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-to-you-is-the-epitome-of-bullshit/612890/85 "2012-02-17T18:54:35Z")
Religious fundamentalists. :twitch: ---
**Author:** ![GargoyleWB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gargoylewb/32/199_2.png) [@GargoyleWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GargoyleWB)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2012, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-to-you-is-the-epitome-of-bullshit/612890/86 "2012-02-17T19:26:47Z")
> [@Jbone](#): > > How about Lean Six Sigma? [http://www.6sigma.us/](http://www.6sigma.us/) > > I personally have not had any training or received one of their colored belts, but I’ve been in a project group where the organizer was doing it based on this training. It was absolutely a waste of time. It took like the first three weeks of the meetings to establish meeting rules, timelines, definitions, etc before we even looked at the problem at hand. Agree. I’ve done Green Belt, and been on many Black Belt-led projects. Six Sigma (or whatever custom-branded variant your company uses for “lean”) has a great set of analysis and metrics tools. However, the leaders are pretty much forced to take the blind dogmatic approach to implementing, with an unfounded assumption that the tools are superior to any other by fiat. I’ve seen many projects follow it to the letter with no benefit. There are some objective open-minded project leaders I’ve come across, but they are a minority. The belt training self-selects for zealotry. ---
**Author:** ![jabiru](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/bbce88/32.png) [@jabiru](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jabiru)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2012, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-to-you-is-the-epitome-of-bullshit/612890/87 "2012-02-17T23:59:43Z")
‘Alternative’ medicine. Alternative to what? Stuff that actually works? Homeopathy, Reiki, iridology … utter bullshit. ---
**Author:** ![Kozmik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/8dc957/32.png) [@Kozmik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kozmik)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2012, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-to-you-is-the-epitome-of-bullshit/612890/88 "2012-02-18T19:11:06Z")
The last post in this thread will be the epitome of bullshit. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2012, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-to-you-is-the-epitome-of-bullshit/612890/89 "2012-02-18T19:42:30Z")
> [@faithfool](#): > > Religious fundamentalists. > > :twitch: One of the better post/poster name combos I’ve seen. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2012, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-to-you-is-the-epitome-of-bullshit/612890/90 "2012-02-18T20:06:09Z")
Climate change denialism has already been mentioned but I’ll broaden it to include a large chunk of corporate PR driven crap. It largely originates with people who _know_ it’s bullshit. You can’t get more bullshitty than that. ---
**Author:** ![AnalogSignal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/analogsignal/32/1085_2.png) [@AnalogSignal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AnalogSignal)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2012, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-to-you-is-the-epitome-of-bullshit/612890/91 "2012-02-18T20:25:26Z")
> [@Kozmik](#): > > This thread. This post. This sentence. That’s the [Liar’s Paradox](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liar_paradox). It is equivalent to saying, “This sentence is false.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-to-you-is-the-epitome-of-bullshit/612890.md?page=4)