Show Notes The Appeal to Self-Evident Truth is committed when someone claims something is self-evidently true, thereby avoiding the need to provide any evidence. Trump We started out by discussing Trump's claim that voter fraud in 2020 is obviously the reason Democrats tried to remove observers in Philadelphia: We followed that with this clip...
Show Notes The Subverted Support Fallacy is committed when someone tries to describe or explain a phenomenon without first providing any evidence that the phenomenon exists at all. It is a form of Begging the Question in that the existence of the phenomenon is assumed. Trump We started out by discussing Trump's description...
Show Notes The Pooh Pooh Fallacy is committed when someone dismisses a claim, argument or question as not being worthy of discussion, especially as a technique to avoid having a difficult conversation. Trump We started out by discussing Trump's dismissal of the Green New Deal as childish: We followed that with this clip of...
Show Notes The Greater Good Fallacy is committed when someone claims you should accept their argument or make some sacrifice because it's for the greater good of everyone. It is a specific form of Thought Terminating Cliché Trump We started out by discussing Trump's claim that Democrats should stop resisting, because his policies...
While we went to all the trouble of making a special video version of episode 100, we don't mind too much if you prefer just to listen to the audio version like usual, so here it is: Show Notes The False Consensus fallacy occurs when someone makes an argument based on their...
Show Notes The Need for First Hand Accounts Fallacy is committed when someone refuses to accept an argument based on any evidence except personal experience. Trump We started out by discussing Trumps claim that historians can't know whether a Civil War battle took place because they weren't there. We followed that with this clip...
Show Notes The Silent Majority Fallacy is committed when someone assumes all or most of the people who aren't vocally disagreeing with them, in fact agree with them. Trump We started out with this clip of Trump implying people who don't protest his immigration policies are on his side: We followed that with this...
Show Notes The Argument by Vehemence is committed when someone gets loud, angry or indignant in place of making an actual argument. Trump We started out with this clip of Trump failing to answer a question about COVID: We followed that with this clip of Trump shouting over Biden in their first debate: Mark's British...
Show Notes The Toupée Fallacy is a type of Argument from Ignorance where someone doesn't notice evidence that would prove that they don't notice confounding evidence, such as when someone claims that all toupées are bad because they've never seen a convincing one (possibly because if it was convincing, they wouldn't...
Show Notes The Appeal to Loyalty Fallacy is committed when someone suggests you should believe a truth claim due to the loyalty you feel to the person making the claim, or suggests that if you don't believe something you are being disloyal. Trump We started out with this clip of Trump on the...