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Spot The Logical Fallacy!
See the first installment of our favorite game. As is frequent in the evolution of games shows, the set of rules has been simplified. It’s time to play everybody’s favorite…
Posted inPhilosophy
Spot The Logical Fallacy!
It's time to play everybody's favorite game: Spot The Logical Fallacy! Each week (or whenever we get round to it), we pull quotations from news reports from around the world…
Posted inCulture Philosophy
Christmas Eve Party Game: Spot the Logical Fallacy!
What better way to celebrate Christmas Eve than with a game the whole family can play? So gather round the tree, load up the eggnog with some Barbancourt 5 star,…
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Prominent philosopher commits global warming fallacy
This post was supposed to be titled, "Conference Report: Day 1," because I intended to give a blow-by-blow of the American Meteorological Society meeting which started yesterday here in New…
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Antichrist, by Saint Robert Bellarmine
To head this book review, I asked Grok to create an image of the Antichrist in this third, and final, year of reigning over mankind. I asked the model to…
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Why Study Probability?
There is that which is, and that which we can know about what is. Both feed the other. Probability belongs to the second subject. If you want to know what…
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Class 71: Never Trust ‘Research Shows’ Headlines: We Bring Cause To Data
All uses of hypothesis testing are fallacies. The results could be true, or likely, but only accidentally. A proof based on the Resurrection and GPA. Bonus Song Anon sent in…
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Last Call For Alcohol-Cancer Papers
Time (sigh) for yet another example of the scrofulous, not to say ubiquitous, Epidemiologist Fallacy. This is peer-reviewed-paper generating technique of declaring X CAUSES Y, but where X is never…