Show Notes The Fallacy of Assuming a Tell is committed when someone convinces themselves that they've identified a way of spotting secret information and then uses that as evidence in their reasoning. Trump We started out by discussing this clip of Trump claiming he could tell Dick Cheney was lying: Then we talked about...
Show Notes The Gambler's Fallacy is committed when someone confuses dependent and independent events or claims that a particular outcome is 'due' because it hasn't happened for some time. Trump We started out by discussing Trump's claim that you can't lose when you're billions of dollars out of pocket: We followed that with this...
Show Notes The Appeal to Freedom Fallacy is committed when someone claims that they should be entitled to something because any restraint of personal freedom for any reason is unacceptable. Trump We started out by discussing this Trump tweet: We followed that directly with this clip from Alexandra Pelosi's documentary American Selfie: One Nation...
Show Notes The Appeal to Stupidity is committed when someone dismisses or devalues education, intellect or reason in order to make their uneducated, idiotic, unreasonable claim sound more plausible. Trump We started out by discussing Trump's claim that his natural grasp of foreign policy is better than the experts: We followed that with this...
Show Notes The Amazing Familiarity Fallacy is committed when someone makes an argument based on information they couldn't possibly have, such as what someone else is thinking. Trump We started out with this clip of Trump claiming to know what the Founding Fathers wanted: We followed that with this clip of Trump falsely claiming...