New Ideas Need Help

When one has new information or a new idea that contradicts conventional wisdom held by the general public, those in opposition will often concentrate on one small piece of the new whole, looking to place a wedge on which to pound. Because of this, it is possible that the more detail provided about the new 'thing' the more likely it is to be rejected by the general public; there will be more single points to pull out and assert as representative of the whole—a type of mis-logic similar to attacking an analogy instead of the thing being analogized.

Because the new intruder is presented as uniform, singular, and cohesive, an attack on one part of it can be presented and accepted as an attack on the whole. Whether the attacker's position turns out to be false because of its narrow focus or inaccurate assumptions, those who wish to dismiss the new thing are allowed to easily latch on to the attack anyway. Even if the attack is valid on the single point, it is mis-logic to invalidate the entire new thing based on the single attack. New ideas often need to be molded after initially presented in order to be confirmed.

So, to present something new and give it a good chance of survival in the general public, maybe it makes sense to brief and concise, giving little extraneous information that could lead to false and unrelated tangents and attacks.

Or, create and support a more educated public.