This is an excerpt from Chapter 26 of Everything You Believe Is Wrong. I am very much interested to learn of reader’s experience with this fallacy. Please let us know in the […]
The Meta-Fallacy: The Mother Of All Fallacies
How to Spot Fallacies – Podcast
Last week I was interviewed by Pat Coffin on his show about Everything You Believe Is Wrong. Best part: very little mention of coronadoom. We are all sick sick sick of it. […]
Transfallacies — Common Fallacies Used To Justify Transsexualism
I don’t know why they had a special Day of Visibility for “transgenders”. You can’t miss men in dresses pretending to be women. They are visibility itself. Nevertheless, the Day was had, […]
Gambler’s Fallacy Not As Crazy As Mathematician’s Fallacy
A new walks-into-a-bar joke begins (thanks to reader Kip Hansen for the tip): A mathematician, a philosopher and a gambler walk into a bar. As the barman pulls each of them a […]
SCOTUS & The Imposing Your Beliefs Fallacy
The State always, or at least when it does not sleep, seeks to impose its beliefs on everybody. It does this through the creation of laws, which most people (except Eternal Victims, […]
The Somebody Might Get Hurt Fallacy — Excerpt from Everything You Believe Is Wrong
Today, an excerpt of Chapter 9 from Everything You Believe Is Wrong. A refutation of the precautionary principle. See if you notice any similarities with what is happening our your window. You […]
The Appeal To Non-Authority Fallacy — Excerpt From Everything You Believe Is Wrong
Today, an excerpt of Chapter 6 from Everything You Believe Is Wrong. This again is only a brief excerpt from a long chapter which investigates our fascination with celebrities, ignorant children as […]
The Don’t Just Stand There, Do Something Fallacy — Excerpt From Everything You Believe Is Wrong
In the talk I gave about The Most Infamous Coronavirus Model, the one that caused many governments to gleefully embrace panic, I made the point that an implicit premise in the model […]
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