2 hours ago by Adrian Chen

In the midst of browbeating the media for missing the "all Muslims burn with hatred for America" angle of the Ft. Hood shooting story tonight, O'Reilly very terribly misinterpreted why winning hearts...

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1 day ago by Herbwoman

As a skeptic this movie had me practically rolling on the floor. When Clooney’s character talks about stabbing an enemy in the neck with a pen to create “Psychic disincentive”, I practically fell out of my chair. Of COURSE if you cause someone severe pain they will be less lakely to attack you. They ...

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1 day ago by Lisa Pampuch

An important part of being able to think critically is being able to spot logical fallacies, which are errors in reasoning. You need to ensure that you don’t use them in your thinking and debating, and you need to be able to spot them in other people’s arguments. The Nizkor Project, a web site dedic ...

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2 days ago by grillingsacredcows

The first logical fallacy I’d like to cover is the False Dichotomy, sometimes called the False Dilemma or the Either-Or Fallacy. The False Dichotomy is the presentation of only two options, usually when more than two exist. You are either for or against us. Black or white, this or that, no shades of ...

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4 days ago by Lord Suspicious

Everything, when it is broken down into its constitutional parts, can be seen as being mostly superfluous, possibly descriptive or explanatory, and thus a verbosity. For instance, a non-fictional book that holds one or two key ideas, in order to be understood, must first introduce the various concep ...

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6 days ago by Herbwoman

Since I had to write a breif article for a newspaper I’m applying to, I thought I’d post it for your enjoyment as well. Today’s logical fallacy is called Appeal To Flattery. This fallacy has the following form: 1) Person A is flattered by person B. 2) Person B makes claim X. 3) Therefore X is true. ...

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8 days ago by Herbwoman

Just like Baskin-Robbins, there are many different flavors or types of skepticism. As a whole skepticism can be described as making a judgement about a claim based on the evidence presented. That evidence must be testable. Those results must also be repeatable within a specific margin of error ala s ...

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15 days ago by magsol

“A rose by any other name would smell as sweet.” -William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet There are some things that we, as human beings, are inherently better at doing than others. We’re masters of survival, brilliant at short-term planning, extremely efficient at categorization of previously uncata ...

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15 days ago by nick r brown

“Question Authority” is a popular slogan often pasted on bumper stickers that came out of the late 1970’s famous protests around the United States. The phrase is a statement refuting the logical fallacy of “because I said so.” In other words, statements made by “authority figures” are not necessaril ...

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16 days ago by theskepticalsamurai

Logical Fallacies 101 is a regular segment of the Skeptical Samurai blog that deals specifically with logical fallacies (an introduction to logical fallacies can be found here: http://theskepticalsamurai.wordpress.com/2009/05/13/logical-fallacies-101/ ). It is my hope that Logical Fallacies 101 will ...

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