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The trick is to look at what the paradigmatic discourse within a Cartesian frame of reference that includes co-articulation can reveal about the locutionary force.
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...sorry, I couldn't resist. Serious now: there's no fool-proof way to detect bullshit, but often you can smell it by analysing the words being used, and see if they convey something coherent. Specially if you can look for the meaning of words that you don't know.
And, if you don't know the topic, you can get a good guess on the meaning of the words based on other things that you might know.