This, in fact, was the original motivation for developing a list
of common logical fallacies.
Had she not heard of Aristotle's codification
of the commonest logical fallacies in human discourse, including that which the medieval schoolmen would later describe as the argumentum ad populum, the headcount fallacy?
Not exact matches
this dances across about half
of the most
common logical fallacies.
You have no evidence that claims
of conversion are false, but you make a strong claim («It is quite a
common tactic») based on the
logical fallacy of an appeal to ignorance.
The only suggestion would be to cover
common logical fallacies use examples
of how they're used by denialists.
Climate myths are often contradictory — it's not warming, though it's warming because
of the sun, and really it's all just an ocean cycle — but they all seem to share one thing in
common:
logical fallacies and reasoning errors.