It's the art of altering facts to support your own agenda. By cutting out all uncertanty words such as "may", "perhaps", "might" and so forth as well as rounding numbers and using power words that appeal to ones emotions you bypass the need for real facts. the targeted group has no desire to look up the facts and search out the truth because their emotions have been tageted affectively. Science does look down on these facticians. They have no known certianty of the work that was done nor have the conducted a none biased study to gather such information. the facticians approach is nothing more than a sequence of convincing fallicies that appeal to emotions more than to logic.
This can easily be applied to both sides.
It can indeed. Although I do think it is fair to say some use it more effectively than others.
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