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 fallacies are behind many of the harmful misunderstandings, rumors, and conspiracy theories our newsroom investigates.

Anger Logical Fallacies and Games Without End: Countermoves Illogical worst case scenarios, personal attacks, unending games: how to respond Posted September 3, 2013 ...

14 logical fallacies that keep showing up in bad arguments By Andy Kiersz May 14, 2014, 12:15 PM PT AP There are a lot of ways that people make terrible and invalid arguments.

In this video, we discuss logical fallacies, which are common patterns of reasoning that lead to mistakes in our arguments and understanding of the world. Examples covered include ad hominem, appeal ...

In an effort to clamp down on the problem of poor logic in science, Espen A. Sjoberg, a PhD candidate at Oslo and Akershus University College, recently outlined a couple of the more common logical ...

The most common logical fallacy in our discourse is that of ‘false equivalence’, which is a fallacy that occurs when someone asserts that two (or more) things are equivalent, simply because ...

Great April Fool’s joke from a letter writer. Had his letter been serious, and not an April fool’s joke, then it surely would not have contained any logical fallacies. See the “Master List ...

From watching and participating in debates over the years regarding Reaganomics, patterns of logical fallacies and factual errors repeatedly arise among critics on the Left. As the troublesome ...