I don't buy the argument that bullshit exists on a perpetually grey gradient. There are things that are clearly bullshit.

I think flat earth falls into that category. However... the problem is there are also things that seem clearly like bullshit that we later find out not to be.

Have you ever been completely convinced about something that turned out to be entirely wrong? Almost certainly, probably more than a few times. It happens to all of us. And sometimes this happens on a societal scale with things like science and civil rights. Ideas not accepted at the time, attempted silence, but fortunately resisted censorship until history was able to bore them out.

Nobody is making that argument.

The problem is that there are fewer clearly bullshit things than people think.

Yes, that is what they told Galileo. They were wrong of course, but we are so much wiser now, we could not possibly make the same mistakes.

Well, with ideas like the one that claims COVID is spread to 5G networks, it's pretty easy to draw the line. But I get what you're saying. The closer you get to a rational argument the harder it is to scrutinize it.

Can you please provide a quote from the book in question?

That comment isn't about the book in question so I'm not sure why you're asking them?