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Several days ago, I came across a link to a web forum hosted by Dorothy M. Murdock, also known as D.M. Murdock, but far better known as Acharya S. For those who aren’t familiar with the name, Acharya S is an author and proponent of the Christ myth theory. But while numerous historians [...] 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 the next in the series on logical fallacies. This time… Arguing ad hominem From Latin for “to the man,” an ad hominem argument is one that attacks the speaker, rather than the issues. We all know this one; we see it all the time. We likely use it all the time [...] 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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