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Logical Fallacies 101: Your Holiday Guide for Dinner Table Debates

As the holidays approach you will probably get into political and cultural debates with family and friends. We at Snopes have put together a guide on the nature of fallacies, particularly false ... read more

Snopestionary: The 'Ad Hominem' Logical Fallacy

Speak like an insider! Welcome to Snopes-tionary, where we'll define a term or piece of fact-checking lingo that we use on the Snopes team. Have a term you want us to explain? Let us know. Also known ... read more

The logic behind argument: Coming face to face with fallacies

Yuri Arcurs peopleimages.com / Getty Images/iStockphoto When I was in college, I remember naively signing up for a course called “Introduction to Logic.” It turned out to be one of the greatest ... read more

(Some) Logical Fallacies and Politics

Donald Trump is a “racist,” a “white supremacist,” a “misogynist,” a “homophobe,” and so on. Hence, his position on X (where X stands for whatever in the world we choose to plug for it) is illicit. read more

Climate change letter contained logical fallacies

“Ad Hominem” attacks in paragraphs No. 1 and No. 2 would be good examples of logical fallacies. The catchphrase “settled science” demonstrates the “Appeal to Closure” logical fallacy, as well as ... read more

Logical Fallacies

When considering your argument or the arguments of others, writers and readers need to be aware of logical fallacies. Logical fallacies are found in many places—ads, politics, movies. Logical ... read more

Why bad arguments sound convincing: 10 tricks of logic that underpin vaccine myths

The biggest lie those who create and spread misinformation perpetrate is that they want you to think for yourself. They warn their target audience not to be “sheep” and not to let themselves be told ... read more

Cognitive Distortions, Unconscious Bias, Cognitive Bias, Logical Fallacies: What You Need To Know To Protect Yourself

Cognitive distortions, unconscious bias, cognitive bias, implicit bias, logical fallacies: you probably heard most or all of these terms. They can get really confusing if you don’t know the difference ... read more

18 Common Logical Fallacies and Persuasion Techniques

It has been suggested that approximately five exabytes (i.e. about 5,000,000,000 pickup truck beds full of information typed on paper) of data are created each day. What is tougher to decipher is how ... read more

Climate Debate Needs Philosophers’ Unbiased Insights

[Editor’s note: Tom Harris, executive director of the International Climate Science Coalition, received the 2014 Excellence in Climate Science Communications Award at the Heartland Institute’s Ninth ... read more