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January 2017

January 8, 2017 Michael FullertonLeave a comment

Articles The Shill Gambit Gambit A rhetorical technique where shill-like behavior is dismissed by claiming a fallacy has been committed. The Great GMO Deception How the real debate of GMOs is being side-lined The Dunning-Kruger Gambit The Dunning-Kruger Effect is […]

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The “Anomaly Hunting” Red Herring

January 8, 2017 Michael FullertonLeave a comment

A common claim of mainstream skeptics is that people they believe are “pseudo-science advocates” regularly engage in anomaly hunting. Stephen Novella has championed this notion.[1] The idea here is that uncritical thinkers attempt to disprove established consensus beliefs by actively looking […]

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The Great GMO Deception

January 8, 2017 Michael FullertonLeave a comment

The debate about genetically modified organisms (GMOs) is one that involves faulty reasoning on both sides. Each side tends to  attack overly simplified versions of the other side’s arguments and ignores important problems with their own side. I personally don’t […]

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The Shill Gambit Gambit

January 8, 2017 Michael FullertonLeave a comment

The Shill Gambit is a type of faulty reasoning in which a person’s argument is dismissed by proclaiming that the person is on the payroll of some agency. Such an argument definitely is fallacious. It is a form of ad […]

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The Dunning-Kruger Gambit

January 8, 2017 Michael FullertonLeave a comment

A popular gambit used by pseudoskeptics is to claim that the objects of their ridicule suffer from the Dunning-Kruger effect. The Dunning-Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in which low competency individuals believe that they performed much better than they actually had. […]

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