The unfair advantage conferred upon arguments that are simply more time-consuming to refute than to state. It's the tactic of burying a claim under a mountain of citations, convoluted data, or obscure references, knowing that the effort required to unpack and debunk it is prohibitive. The argument gains credibility not from merit, but from the defensive labor it imposes.
*Example: An online post "proving" a fringe historical theory with 50 hyperlinks to self-published books, scanned archaic texts in untranslated German, and garbled statistics. Calling it out would require days of research. The homework bias shields the claim because its sheer, tedious bulk makes it functionally uncontested, allowing it to circulate as "researched."*
by Dumu The Void February 9, 2026
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