Posts Tagged ‘fallacious’

A pandemic of fallacious thinking and civic irresponsibility: The precarious state of reason

Given that life and death literally rest on the validity of the “arguments”—if they are even worthy of the term–that have been bandied about in favor of not getting vaccinated for Covid19, they deserve the most intense scrutiny we can muster. Each is bad enough in itself, but taken together, they reinforce one another. They bunch together […]

BEST OF THE WEB: A classic fallacious argument: "If masks don’t work, then why do surgeons wear them?"

   A response to people who use the classic fallacious argument, “Well, if masks don’t work, then why do surgeons wear them?” I’m a surgeon that has performed over 10,000 surgical procedures wearing a surgical mask. However, that fact alone doesn’t really qualify me as an expert on the matter. More importantly, I am a […]

Fallacious cost-benefit analysis from PGI Chandigarh used to promote HPV vaccine

nsnbc : A fallacious and misleading health –economic evaluation published by the Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, (PGI) Chandigarh, India has been […]

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