Ask Your Questions About Logical Fallacies

Welcome! This is the place to ask the community of experts and other fallacyophites (I made up that word) if someone has a committed a fallacy or not. This is a great way to settle a dispute!


Dr. Bo's Criteria for Logical Fallacies:

  • It must be an error in reasoning not a factual error.
  • It must be commonly applied to an argument either in the form of the argument or in the interpretation of the argument.
  • It must be deceptive in that it often fools the average adult.
Therefore, we will define a logical fallacy as a concept within argumentation that commonly leads to an error in reasoning due to the deceptive nature of its presentation. Logical fallacies can comprise fallacious arguments that contain one or more non-factual errors in their form or deceptive arguments that often lead to fallacious reasoning in their evaluation.
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What's wrong with this logic?

Years ago at my old job, I was sexually harassed by a female employee that I wasn't romantically interested in. There was a witness to these incidents of harassment. I reported it and she was fired. After this ordeal, coworkers talked amongst each o...

asked on Monday, Nov 18, 2024 08:10:36 PM by Kris
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Guilt trip?

About a week ago, I filled a formal complaint against an associate for a racial slur against me. I reported it to Ethics. A few days later, one of managers calls me a name after asking for his help then immediately says " I'm just kidding, don't rep...

asked on Monday, Nov 18, 2024 11:09:01 AM by Kris
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Another Fallacy What is it

 The best of western, allopathic medicine, especially acute emergency care and diagnostics, is arguably the finest in the world. But it is clear that our so-called science-based processes and methodologies that result in FDA approved drugs do n...

asked on Thursday, Nov 14, 2024 12:02:35 PM by R. Chapman
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Curious What the Logical Fallacy is

.  The human mind and body, when confronted with malignancy, reacts with a complex set of physiological and psychological change that cannot be adequately addressed in isolation.   As such, only whole person, multi-interventional synergist...

asked on Thursday, Nov 14, 2024 11:40:23 AM by R. Chapman
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What fallacy can be spotted in this statement

The more I study books the more I realise that   I don't know anything.

asked on Thursday, Nov 14, 2024 04:37:51 AM by Burtons
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What logical fallacy does this reveal?

The push by fundamentalist bigots and morons is the first step of evil conservatives to destroy the minds of the youth and tie them into the cycle of Violent Republican Stupidity. - Grung E. Gene, Creeping Creationism and Conservative Stupidity An...

asked on Monday, Nov 11, 2024 09:54:08 PM by Kyle Larsen
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What logical fallacy is this?

Memory experts are quick to point out that memory is constructed and it changes over time. Curiously, those who cover memory researchers rarely, if ever, pause to ask whether professors describing their own research might reconstruct their “fi...

asked on Monday, Nov 11, 2024 08:56:03 PM by Kyle Larsen
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What Fallacy is this?

Defense Attorney Oncken: There were questions involving a dog, and [the granddaughter][1] also said that he put his fingers in a cat's bottom? Therapist McCollum: Uh-huh. Oncken: Am I reading that right? McCollum:  Correct. Oncken: What did...

asked on Monday, Nov 11, 2024 07:20:09 PM by Kyle Larsen
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What logical fallacy aligns?

At Theranos, we can perform all of our lab tests on a sample 1/1,000 the size of a typical blood draw.  No other laboratory is more accurate than Theranos.” - from the Theranos, Inc. website Answer

asked on Monday, Nov 11, 2024 07:01:47 PM by Kyle Larsen
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Match the statement with its equivalent logical fallacy

 Regardless of Barrett’s opinion, homeopathy continues to be respected as a system of healing, and its use continues to grow, now spanning more than 200 years and several countries. In an article entitled “Integrating Homeopathy in ...

asked on Monday, Nov 11, 2024 06:33:42 PM by Kyle Larsen
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