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The Viability Fallacy
Gaze and wonder at the the chart pushed by the New York Times to explain the abortion laws of each state. An abbreviated version heads the post. The graphic is…
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The Consent Fallacy
Warning The links and scenarios have disturbing imagery. The consent argument is so strong in our culture that its truth is almost self-evident. It says as long as two people…
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The Epidemiologist Fallacy Strikes Again: Premature Birth Rate Edition
Hypothesis testing leads to more scientific nonsense than any other practice, including fraud. Hypothesis testing, as regular readers know, cannot identify cause. It conflates decision with probability and leads to…
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Book Sneak Peek: Imposing Your Beliefs Fallacy
All, here is a segment, a tease, a mere fragment, of an upcoming book of popular fallacies from the chapter Imposing Your Beliefs Fallacy. The Imposing Your Belief Fallacy occurs…
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The Offence Fallacy
The Offence Fallacy is perhaps the most popular bad argument used to dismiss Truths which are uncomfortable to us moderns. It is best illustrated in a real example. Here are…
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A Coincidence: Coyne Zinged Me Before I Him — Or, The Coyne Fallacy Redux
After posting yesterday's article, Jerry Coyne Doesn't Have Free Will (poor fellow), I immediately saw hits coming to my place from Coyne's. It turned out that, unbeknownst to me, the…
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The Imposing-Their-Beliefs Fallacy
I'm on the road for the next several days and won't always have access to the Internet. So I'm reposting a series of classic fallacies. Regular service to resume early…
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The Apes Do It So It’s Fine For Us Fallacy
< I'm on the road for the next several days and won't always have access to the Internet. So I'm reposting a series of classic fallacies. Regular service to resume…
