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Megan McArdle defines the term:

This is a first class example of what I like to call “Supertwaddle”:  thoroughgoing nonsense wrapped up in just enough technical knowledge to be more thoroughly, amusingly wrong than the ordinary twaddle you buy at your local drugstore or neighborhood bar.  Sadly, it often sounds very convincing to people who a) have no idea what any of the jargon means and b) badly wish to believe the twaddler.

Allow me to use it in a sentence.  There is no shortage of Supertwaddle in comments at the Atlantic these days,