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Tag Archives: Bad arguments
Jon Stewart’s irresponsible, anti-science, COVID conspiracy theory rant
I’ve been a fan of Jon Stewart for a long time. I usually find him to be both funny and insightful. It was, therefore, with great dismay that I watched him spread a conspiracy theory and inaccuracies about science on … Continue reading
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Tagged Bad arguments, conspiracy theory, debunked, Safety
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The “it’s banned in Europe” fallacy
The title of this post is written somewhat in jest because this is not a formally recognized fallacy; nevertheless, it is a very common line of reasoning that is logically flawed and very closely aligned with multiple fallacies. The argument, … Continue reading
The problems with anti-vaccers’ precautionary principle arguments
Invoking the precautionary principle is a favorite tactic of anti-vaccers, anti-GMO activists, and various other groups that are prone to opposing scientific advances, but there are numerous issues with this strategy. The exact definition of the precautionary principle is a … Continue reading
Facts: Why they matter and how to check them
We seem to be living in the golden age of misinformation, and while cognitive biases and motivated reasoning have always existed, they seem to have reached epidemic levels in recent years, with attacks on the very nature of facts coming … Continue reading
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Tagged Bad arguments, evaluating evidence
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Case-fatality rates don’t indicate how well a country contained COVID
Recently, I have been frequently seeing the argument that the USA has actually done a very good job at dealing with COVID because it’s case-fatality rate (i.e., the percentage of infected individuals that die from COVID) is lower than many … Continue reading
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