Show Notes The Fractal Wrongness Fallacy is committed when someone's argument is based on logic or premises so wrong that they are wrong at every level from detail to worldview. Trump We started out with this clip of Trump misunderstanding both the stock market and the National Debt in one go: We followed that...
Show Notes The Appeal to Fiction Fallacy is committed when someone tries to use something that happened in a work of fiction to back up their claim about the real world. Trump We started out with this clip of Trump making various claims about the border, many of which were in fact things...
Show Notes The McNamara Fallacy is committed when someone treats something as important because it is easy to measure, or dismisses something as unimportant because it is hard to measure. Trump We started out by talking about Robert McNamara's use of Vietnamese death toll as a measure of US success during the Vietnam...