When people are trying to persuade you, they sometimes reach for tricks like the 'appeal to ignorance' or 'whataboutism' to seem more convincing.

The biggest lie those who create and spread misinformation perpetrate is that they want you to think for yourself. They warn their target audience not to be "sheep" and not to let themselves be told ...

Most people seem to believe that the “ad hominem” argument is America’s most appealing fallacy. It’s frequently cited and gives people a chance to show off the only Latin phrase they know ...

There are dozens of textbook logical fallacies. Learning how to spot them and avoid them can reduce many forms of bias. Ironically, however, committing logical fallacies can sometimes make a ...

Philosophers call this the fallacy of begging the question (really pretentious philosophers call it petitio principii). But it’s not a fallacy because it gets the logic wrong.

Recent storm damage in Washington D.C. and Atlanta were caused by downdraft winds, but many people blamed tornadoes. Here's a discussion of the "tornado fallacy" ...

How Quantum Probability Theory Could Explain Human Logical Fallacies A quantum model of reasoning beats its classical counterpart in explaining why humans make errors in judging probabilities.

The broken window fallacy is a parable that is sometimes used to explain the problem with the notion that waging war is good for a nation's economy.