A fallacy is a mistake in reasoning. It can undermine your case. Therefore, it is important to examine your own planned written and oral presentations. Also, carefully consider opposing presentations ...

There are many messages from science that bear repeating. One of them is that correlation does not mean causation. When headlines include a cause-effect conclusion based on correlational evidence, ...

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President Obama’s Nobel Prize acceptance speech in Oslo on Thursday featured one of his favorite rhetorical devices: the false choice. “Within America, there has long been a tension between those who ...

In an era of real-time news and growing media consumption, came a presidential election like no other. Did the media create the Donald Trump phenomenon? Or is he merely the embodiment of an ...

One of my colleagues here at The Rachel Maddow Show reminded me this afternoon of comments President Obama made to Associated Press last week about the false-equivalence fallacy. Obama said, "I think ...

Fallacies and false narratives are like cancers in a society. Just like a cancer can go undetected for years without causing any real damage to the body, so can fallacies and false narratives destroy ...

24 September 2020, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Stuttgart: ILLUSTRATION - A croupier deals cards at a blackjack table in the Casino Stuttgart during a press meeting (scene posed). (to dpa: "Casinos in ...