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It’s been too long since I’ve written an installment of the series on faulty logic. It’s time to continue it, with… Appeal to Popularity There was a time when pretty much everyone thought that the Earth was flat. There was a time when anyone who thought about it was sure the sun went around the [...] It’s time for number two in a series of posts on faulty logic. Today’s fallacy: False Dichotomy We like things to be black or white, tall or short, here or there. We like to consider two sides to every story. Unfortunately, there aren’t always two sides. Sometimes there’s only one; more often, there are multitudes. [...] In “On being a skeptic”, I said that skeptics look at evidence and make rational judgments based on the evidence: We don’t say, “Bullshit!”, and we don’t say, “It’s a scientist saying it, so it must be true.” We look at the evidence. I note that non-skeptics — or those who style themselves as a different kind [...] |
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