9 days ago by RM

Source: JoNova Hand back your science degrees Trenberth et al. Thirty eight of the worlds top, most consequential climate scientists sought to slap down the Nobel prize winner, astronaut and glitterati of science, and all they could come up with … Continue reading →

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10 days ago by Panderbear

In Sound Argument Panderbear noted that an argument is sound if the premises are true and the conclusion necessarily follows from them. Checking for soundness is essential to immunizing oneself against pandering. The more insidious mode of pandering is to employ some combination of logical fallacies ...

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22 days ago by Panderbear

Techniques for immunizing yourself against political pandering are pretty straightforward. Applying them consistently is hard. Facts, facts, facts! Get some. Then get some more. Become your own proactive news aggregator. Confirm all 'facts,' opinions, and arguments. Are the premises true? Do they pr ...

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33 days ago by Panderbear

Xenophobia and confirmation bias are the soil in which politicians plant their panders. These twin vestiges of our evolutionary history served their purposes for pre-civilization Homo sapiens. Innate fear of strangers is a warranted survival trait in the absence government, laws, and the other trapp ...

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45 days ago by DontTreadOnMike

Last week’s logical fallacy was Argument from Ignorance. This week we’re going to talk about Confirmation Bias or Cherry Picking. This is a very common logical fallacy. I do it, you do it, well all do it. Confirmation Bias is when you only accept evidence that supports your hypothesis and either pur ...

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63 days ago by Linoge

Ahh, “gun control” extremists… when will you ever learn that the Memory Hole simply is not a viable tactic any more? Consider, if you must, the fairly impolite example of @BenjaminV, who had this “conversation” with me regarding the shooting at Virginia Tech on Thursday: BenjaminV: There should be n ...

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73 days ago by Dustin Williams

My college buddy Jered, who've I've spent several posts on responding to, in one of the comments he recently left used the appeal to consequences logical fallacy. These are often rooted in eschatology, his in the Adventist variety. Before I jump into it, let's look at the more standard one. If you r ...

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74 days ago by Linoge

Take a look at this story: What happened next, to my mind, can only be attributed to the fact that I was OC. As he drew parallel to me, he looked at me, looked at my firearm, looked at me again and stopped. He stared at me for about 5 seconds (I think) and I kinda stared back. He turned around and w ...

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75 days ago by SRM

We focus on counter-argument for the third writing project. Recall that “countering,” as Harris terms it, doesn’t mean simply letting “the other side” have a say or merely disagreeing with an opposing view. That may be how argument on cable television (unfortunately) works these days, but it isn’t w ...

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77 days ago by grammar

When writing your papers, you need to make sure that your reasoning is sound. All the evidence in the world won’t help validate your case if your interpretation is off and your logic is faulty. Reasoning errors may be intentional. Some authors will engage in it as a way to trick readers when their a ...

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