The meme is typically used to highlight logical fallacies or absurd situations, often involving a setup followed by a humorous contradiction or clarification.

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Understanding and spotting logical fallacies like this these can be a really useful way to think critically about what you read or watch, and steer (and keep) conversations back on track.

Attempting to oversee and provide a handle on fallacies is The Fallacy Files, a labor of love of Gary N. Curtis, a Ph.D., from Indiana University, whose background is logic.

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 ...