I’ll send you the cell number of my brother-in-law.
Actual quotes: “Liberals are actively attempting to subvert this country.”
“Liberals are conducting a war on Christmas.”
“America lost it’s moral edge in the 1950s.”
“The amount of damage in the WTC attack was greater as a percentage of the GDP than Pearl Harbor, but there still are people who oppose this (Iraq) war.”
I grew up as a devout Mormon, and could write essays on all the BS in that religion.
Conspiracy theories, especially anything involving Freemasons, the “Illuminati”, and “Zionists”. Bonus points if UFO-related shit is thrown in. Basically, Jeff Rense.
On a more personal level - any kind of lying about military service, especially “black ops” and “special forces” so secret that there’s no record of their ever having served and no documentation for anything. I can’t stand these bullshitters, and there are SO many of them.
First thing that came to mind is any infomercial, under the guise of a news show or “authoritative” source that’s simply faux window dressing to hock whatever their version of snake oil is.
But I’ve been up late the past several nights, so it’s been peeving me off. I mean, who falls for that? It’s so painfully obvious it’s an actress pretending to be a news anchor, and the “doctors/scientists/chemists” could be anybody.
Obviously a sucker is born everyday, and I guess that’s why it just totally bums me out. We’re surrounded by idiots.
Also, any pseudoscience and ridiculous conspiracy theories like Astrology, Psychics, Ghost hunting, Alternative Medicine (including a lot of what’s found in Chiropractic and Acupuncture techniques), Colon Cleansing, Hypnotism, Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity, Magnetic Therapy, Homeopathy, Faith Healing, Crop Circles, Ufologists, Moon Landing Hoax, 9/11 “Truthers”… ugh, the list goes on…
One more that stands out, of course, is Scientology. It might be the epitome of BS religions, because it’s the most popular religion founded within the last 60 years. By a drugged out, scifi author. All very well documented on its origins, with leaked beliefs that challenge the insanity of any faith, let alone a poorly written science fiction story, on top of plenty of evidence of abuse and swindling of its members. And still, the suckers come in droves.
All the above, that millions upon millions will believe that sort of shit and spread it around until the day they die, is almost fascinating if it weren’t so pathetic.
This thread. This post. This sentence.
Fox News. Can’t believe I’m the first to mention it. What a huge load of bullshit.
I was thinking Sylvia Browne and Miss Cleo or so-called psychics in general.
There are lots of good answers in this thread so far.
But only one right answer. 
Religion.
Pseudoscience.
“Conspiracy theorist”* style conspiracies.
*To distinguish them from conspiracy theories that are either true or plausible. Of course if such a theory is true it never gets called a conspiracy; it gets labeled a scandal, a hoax, a fraud, or has the suffix -gate added to it.
But if your post is true, then this thread is false. But if this thread is false your thread is true. But if your post is true, then this thread is false…
ERROR
ERROR
<head catches on fire>
The epitome of bullshit in religion? Scientology. But in general? Evolutionary psychology, or maybe homeopathy. It’s hard to choose just one.
The idea that modern free market capitalism is the best system man can devise to ensure equitable and efficient use of the world’s resources, despite all the evidence to the contrary.
It’s not all bullshit, sometimes on a heavily overcast day, I look at the light cloud where the sun should be
All postmodern literary criticism. The only thing useful to me about studying that stuff was getting my bullshit detector finely tuned. It’s a mode of discourse specifically designed only to mask its complete lack of content in as much pseudo-intellectual gobbledegook as possible.
Edit: Come to think of it, this xkcd sums it up pretty well.
Agree 100%. My favourite Dutch writer, Karel van het Reve, held a prestigious, yet hilarious lecture on this very subject. And he was, at the time, professor in Russian Literature. After that speech, literary criticism as a college study in the Netherlands pretty much died a silent death. It is a shame it isn’t, to my knowledge, translated in English.
On the other hand, Reve’s own “History of Russian Literature” is a pleasure to read.
My own contribution is corporate reorganisations at work. All the more so because as a worker, you pretty much have to nod and smile or even agree enthusiastically.
It’s hard to pick just one: Astrology, homeopathy, Von Daniken, Carlos Castaneda, theism, feng shui all come to mind.
But the very first image that comes to mind when I hear the word “Bullshit” is the face of John Edward.
Careful there. It’s all fun and games until the universe SEGFAULTs 
What do I think of when you say bullshit? “We regret these layoffs, but at the end of the day we must leverage our synergies moving forward”.
Human-caused global warming that will result in environmental catastrophes.
Scientology.
Government conspiracy theories, e.g. “WTC as brought down by controlled demolition.”
Homeopathy.
The very first thing that popped into my mind is social conservativism.
Penn and Teller. That’s my first thought. Then there was a card game I used to play.
But I’d agree with creationism. The bible itself is full of it.
Oh, bravo! (golf clap)
Lots of great ideas here, but I haven’t yet seen stock market analysis here. Surely some of you must have savings invested in unit trusts, managed funds, that kind of thing? If so, don’t immediately chuck away the next interim report you get, with a statement from the fund manager. Read it all through carefully, it’s really priceless. The sheer amount of intellectual effort these monkeys expend throwing their darts at the board and then justifying their scores… I can’t help feeling that ALL fund managers are former post-modern literary critics who got smart enough to realise where the money was.
:rolleyes: Though that does remind me of the cluster of anti-science ideologies, one or other of which gets rolled out by AGW skeptics, and many of which have been brought up here. Such as the idea that whatever science I can’t understand, no-one else can either. However I refuse to educate myself, thus is the rest of the human race ignorant. If I don’t know how something works, no-one else does, and if they say they do they’re lying.
(And I’m aware that charge could be levelled at my previous post, but then I would point to all the studies that show average long-term fund manager performance really IS a dart-flinging, entrail reading exercise)