Show Notes The Complex Question Fallacy is committed when someone asks a question which includes the answer they are expecting or only allows people to answer in one way. Trump We started out by discussing Trump's 'push polls' which, despite being phrased as questions, were actually propaganda. We followed that with this clip of...
Show Notes The Red Baiting Fallacy is committed when someone calls their opponent a communist or a socialist based on little or no evidence and in order to avoid engaging with their actual arguments. Trump We started out by discussing Trump's claim that Kamala Harris is a Communist: We followed that with this clip...
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 Magical Thinking Fallacy is committed when someone claims that a real world outcome is the result of a magical cause or process, such as a wish, jinx or curse. Trump We started out by discussing Trump's superstitious early morning call to Fox and Friends on the day of the 2016...
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...