When I was young, I was transfixed by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! As I viewed and reviewed the drawings that appeared in the newspaper, I learned about a great many jaw-dropping oddities. But of all ...

In an era of “post-truth” and “truthiness,” it can be hard to defend the common-sense belief that reality exists independently of how people think about it. Skepticism about reality comes in many ...

The Internet is teeming with crazies, jerks, and blowhards; and in online forums, debaters are full of passionate intensity. Peruse the comments area on any popular blog, and you’ll find more ...

In election years, it is imperative to recognize bad claims and arguments. Examples are not attributed to any specific individual and most are fictitious. Ad Hominem fallacy: one attacks her opponent ...

An error in reasoning is called a logical or rhetorical fallacy. When one’s conclusion does not necessarily follow from the premise, we are right to say that the ...

Fallacy is defined as “faulty reasoning; misleading or unsound argument.” There are two recent prime examples of this. The first is former President Donald Trump’s analogy about a sinking boat ...