Show Notes The Appeal to Anonymous Authority is committed when someone cites an authority to back up a claim, but the authority is unnamed, vague or similarly uncheckable. Trump We started out by talking about this clip of Trump claiming the best analysts predicted a stock market crash if Biden was elected Then we...
Show Notes The Imposter Fallacy is committed when someone claims without sufficient evidence that a member of their group who is making them look bad is actually an infiltrator from another group. Trump We started out by talking about this tweet from Trump: and then we discussed the various attempts of right-wing voices to...
Show Notes The Argumentum ad Lunam Fallacy is committed when someone compares putting a man on the moon (or another very hard thing that has been achieved) to a hard thing that has yet to be achieved. Trump We started out by talking about Trump claiming that since the US has already done...
Show Notes The Argument from Consequences occurs when someone makes a truth claim based on how good (or bad) things would be if the claim was in fact true. Trump We started out by talking about Trump being unable to accept the results of the election because if the numbers are true that...