Not P but DFW: further attempted rebuttals and redirects

[Mike Jing]

The following excerpt is from David Foster Wallace's essay *Consider the
Lobster*:

To these what-looks-like-pain-is-really-just-reflexes counterarguments,
however, there happen to be all sorts of scientific and pro–animal rights
counter-counterarguments. And then further attempted rebuttals and
redirects, and so on.

What does "redirect" mean here?