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Author Archives: Fallacy Man
The hierarchy of evidence: Is the study’s design robust?
People are extraordinarily prone to confirmation biases. We have a strong tendency to latch onto anything that supports our position and blindly ignore anything that doesn’t. This is especially true when it comes to scientific topics. People love to think … Continue reading
Posted in Nature of Science
Tagged evaluating evidence, peer-reviewed studies, statistics
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Evolutionary mechanisms part 4: Natural selection
Natural selection is probably the most well known of the evolutionary mechanisms, and it is the one that most people think of when someone says, “evolution.” It is, however, often misunderstood, and people frequently fail to appreciate its complexity. Therefore, … Continue reading
Posted in Science of Evolution
Tagged Bad arguments, evolution, natural selection
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Basic statistics part 4: understanding P values
If you’ve ever read a scientific paper, you’ve probably seen a statement like, “There was a significant difference between the groups (P = 0.002)” or “there was not a significant correlation between the variables (P = 0.1138),” but you may … Continue reading
5 bad arguments against the influenza vaccine
I spend a lot of time on this blog debunking bad anti-vaccine arguments (for example here and here). Nevertheless, logically invalid anti-vaxxer nonsense continues to rear its ugly head. Therefore, in this post I am going to focus specifically on … Continue reading
Posted in Vaccines/Alternative Medicine
Tagged anti vaccine arguments, Bad arguments, logical fallacies
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Do we need more studies on vaccines, GMOs, climate change, etc.?
I frequently encounter people who state that, “I’m not anti-vaccine/GMO, I just think that we need more studies” or “we need more research before we take major action on climate change.” I have, however, noticed that whenever someone declares, “I’m … Continue reading
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