They've been manufacturing
critiques of Straw Man positions that evolutionary psychologists don't actually hold, and they've been ignoring masses of evidence that evolutionary psychologists have generated.
Not exact matches
Instead
of critiquing the
straw man accusation in this instance on its merits, instead you «appealed to ridicule,» mocking the concept itself, as if by mocking the concept, «magically» (your word choice) people will no longer see the
straw men we employ, and we can continue with our sophistries unchecked.
The
critique about process is a
straw man for the main objection: use
of test results as a factor in evaluating teacher effectiveness.
1) Gavin either can't understand what Nic actually wrote, or he is willfully substituting
straw men for most
of Nic's
critiques.