Category Archives: Vaccines/Alternative Medicine

The Rules of Logic Part 7: Using Consistent Reasoning to Compare Apples and Oranges

Posted on September 14, 2015 by Fallacy Man

Using consistent reasoning simply means that you use the same type of thinking or the same logical structure across your various views and arguments. In other words, the arguments that you use to support one position cannot conflict with the … Continue reading →

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It’s just water: how homeopathy debunks itself

Posted on August 10, 2015 by Fallacy Man

Homeopathy is one of the most popular and fastest growing alternative “medicines.” People are drawn to its alluring claims of “treating the whole person” and “having no side effects” like moths to a flame. Nevertheless, I generally find that most … Continue reading →

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10 hypocrisies/double standards of the anti-vaccine movement

Posted on July 13, 2015 by Fallacy Man

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 →

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Yes, vaccines did save us from disease: a graphic analysis

Posted on July 5, 2015 by Fallacy Man

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 →

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Miracle Mineral Solution (MMS): If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is

Posted on June 28, 2015 by Fallacy Man

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 →

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