Scientific jargon is abused as rhetorical decor rather than evidence of understanding.

Evidence

Like the clutch of professional climate-change deniers who claim to “debunk” the avalanche of scientific evidence that the planet is warming by deploying entirely decontextualized temperature charts, along with outdated data and a steady flow of complex scientific terms, Wolf also engages in what we might think of as a pipiking of the science. She peppers her comments with medical terms that she abuses with abandon, rattling on about “lipid nanoparticles” and “spike proteins” and the “blood-brain barrier” so quickly and incomprehensibly that even Steve Bannon has to beg her, “Slow down! Slow down!” — Naomi Klein, Doppelganger, 741

Categorization

• SEED: Klein coins ‘pipiking’ — an essay on how pseudo-technical vocabulary functions as performative credibility could be spun from this.
• XREF: connects to: Obscure jargon functions as academic gatekeeping that prevents theory from educating the public