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 ...

A second fallacy that arises is "false analogy," Sjoberg asserts. This is most prevalent in animal research. Essentially, scientists assume that because animals share many characteristics with humans, ...

That's the logical fallacy of hasty generalization. He also employed the specious tactic of false equivalence, which was used devastatingly in this election.

Some expert witnesses point out that past periods in Earth’s history were warmer than the 20th century. Because such variations existed long before humans, they claim the current trend is also the ...

The red herring logical fallacy is very often used -- so often you may not even notice when it comes into play. Here's one example: On June 9, 2022, U.S. Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, tweeted in ...

This writer would like to point out that both Stan Thornberry and Gary Kilberger use a logical fallacy known as a false dilemma in their letters to the editor (March 20 and March 30, respectively ...

Presidential candidate Rick Santorum is a leading opponent of gay marriage. But rather than marshaling logically sound arguments, he constantly commits the fallacy of begging the question.

This is a simple and self-evidently fallacious technique, yet it would be difficult to find an author who has not, at some stage, indulged it to some degree—largely because all analogies that aren't ...

He says, "In this era of zero-sum gain politics, the logical fallacy more pronounced than false equivalence is false purity." If he is talking about political-partisan activists, maybe.