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...
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...
Show Notes The Argument from Silence Fallacy is committed when someone assumes that no response from their opponent is is proof that they are right. Trump We started out with this this quote from Trump's book "How to Get Rich" “All of the women on ‘The Apprentice’ flirted with me — consciously or unconsciously....
Show Notes The Survivorship Bias Fallacy is committed when someone makes an argument based on a biased sample that only includes items that have survived some kind of selection pressure. Trump We started out with this clip of Trump literally talking to a group of survivors: We followed that with this Trump tweet: And finally...
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 Broken Window Fallacy is committed when someone tries to claim when a bad thing happens, that good things will result from it, which makes it OK. Trump We started out with this clip of Trump claiming tariffs, which raise prices for US consumers, will make the US a richer nation: We...
Show Notes The Sunk Cost Fallacy is committed when someone justifies maintaining or extending a course of action based on the cost already incurred (whether in terms of money, time, effort or intellectual capital). Trump We started out with this clip of Trump justifying sending 4000 more troops into Afghanistan in August of...
Show Notes The Double Standard Fallacy is committed when someone treats two very similar situations differently (usually to their advantage) with no explanation why. Trump We started out with this clip and tweet combo from Trump being happy to accept the media 'calling' the election in 2016 and not so cool about it...
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...
Show Notes The Fallacy of Worse Evil is committed when someone acts like something is not a problem because worse problems exist or can be imagined. Trump We started out by talking about this clip of Trump on Coronavirus: We followed that with this clip of Trump defending Russia: And then we looked at Louie...