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Author Archives: Fallacy Man
Debunking “10 scientific studies proving GMOs can be harmful to human health”
I recently stumbled across an article titled “10 Scientific Studies Proving GMOs Can Be Harmful To Human Health.” This article was written by Collective Evolution, which is a site that is right up there with Natural News and Whale.to for … Continue reading
Posted in GMO
Tagged appeal to nature fallacies, Bad arguments, evaluating evidence, GMOs, logical fallacies, peer-reviewed studies, statistics
2 Comments
10 hypocrisies/double standards of the anti-vaccine movement
The anti-vaccine movement is full of all sorts of inaccurate claims, bizarre views, and distorted facts. This dissociation with reality often causes anti-vax arguments to conflict with one another. Therefore, in this post I am going to describe 10 anti-vax … Continue reading
Yes, vaccines did save us from disease: a graphic analysis
If you have spent any time reading anti-vaccine pages, then you have inevitably come across graphs like Figure 1 (below) which claim that death rates were already declining prior to vaccines, and, therefore “vaccines did not save us from disease.” … Continue reading
Posted in Vaccines/Alternative Medicine
Tagged Bad arguments, disease rates, measles, statistics, Vaccines
9 Comments
Miracle Mineral Solution (MMS): If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is
There is an old saying that if something sounds too good to be true, it probably is. I really like this saying because it is a basic principle of skepticism, and it goes hand in hand with a statement that … Continue reading
Posted in Vaccines/Alternative Medicine
Tagged alternative medicine, Bad arguments, cancer, evaluating evidence
7 Comments
Assumptions vs. inductive logic: is radiometric dating based on assumptions?
Anyone who has tried to debate a creationist has invariably encountered their liberal use of the word, “assumption.” This is one of their trump-card, catch-all arguments that they use to handily “defeat” any evidence that opposes their position. For example, … Continue reading
Posted in Nature of Science, Science of Evolution
Tagged Bad arguments, creationism, evaluating evidence, evolution, rules of logic
20 Comments
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