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The If I Were God Fallacy & Evolution
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The If I Were God Fallacy & Evolution

The If I Were God Fallacy runs like this: If I were God, here is how the world would work;The world does not work like that;Therefore, God does not exist.…
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Mathematics & The Imposing Your Beliefs Fallacy
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Mathematics & The Imposing Your Beliefs Fallacy

I blush as I write the truism that it is possible, given obvious reasons, that anybody anywhere might discover or hit upon a mathematical truth. Any body. Even NPR listeners.…
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Solzhenitsyn, Communism, Miracles & The Imposing Your Beliefs Fallacy
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Solzhenitsyn, Communism, Miracles & The Imposing Your Beliefs Fallacy

Words and phrases can drift over time, as you all know, sometimes coming to mean even the opposite of their original definition. Like awful, meaning first something worthy of awe,…
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The So’s Yer Old Man Fallacy
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The So’s Yer Old Man Fallacy

For the closing days of summer, I am posting every chapter of the first edition of Everything You Believe Is Wrong. My enemies ravaged the first edition, inserting typos galore…
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The Most Common Fallacies Our Enemies Use
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The Most Common Fallacies Our Enemies Use

For the closing days of summer, I am posting every chapter of the first edition of Everything You Believe Is Wrong. My enemies ravaged the first edition, inserting typos galore…
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Social Justice Fallacies by Thomas Sowell Reviewed
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Social Justice Fallacies by Thomas Sowell Reviewed

Thomas Sowell agrees that Everything The Woke Believe Is Wrong. And the reason they are wrong is that they rely on fallacies to justify themselves. Lots and lots of fallacies.…
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The I Have Ascended Beyond Fallacy
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The I Have Ascended Beyond Fallacy

There is a special kind of argument you hear only from academic Experts. Non-academic non-Experts never use it; or, if they do, I've not seen any example (beyond parroting AEs).…
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Ad Hominem, My Sweet: The Fallacy That Usually Isn’t
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Ad Hominem, My Sweet: The Fallacy That Usually Isn’t

For the closing days of summer, I am posting every chapter of the first edition of Everything You Believe Is Wrong. My enemies ravaged the first edition, inserting typos galore…
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