the slippery slope isn’t a logical fallacy, but a way of life. In our gloomy predictions, we regularly understate how far society will begin kicking us down the slope once we start sliding.

A slippery slope fallacy involves arguing against an initial action on the basis that it will lead to a succession of undesirable consequences—but without any significant evidence to support ...

takes conservatives to task for relying on a “slippery slope” fallacy to argue that Obamacare’s individual mandate should be invalidated. Thaler believes that the hypothetical broccoli ...