This letter is a response to an Oak Ridger guest column titled, “Pronatalist movement is based on a fantasy.” Regrettably, the referenced column contains serious logic fallacies. These fallacies begin ...
Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Is there a more annoying cliché in policy-wonk circles than “there are no silver bullets”? If so, it does not ...
Four months after Liberation Day, President Trump is poised to declare victory in his trade war. In July, he trumpeted his latest agreement with the E.U. as “the biggest deal ever made.” With the ...
Hassan Vally does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their ...
Without going too far out on a limb, I believe almost everyone would like two things from their jobs and careers: success and happiness. They want to do well financially, receive recognition for their ...
The McNamara Fallacy is the idea that it is an error to make decisions purely on measurements or quantitative data. Robert McNamara was the US Secretary of Defense ...
6 German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD), München-Neuherberg, Germany Importance Differences in treatment effects between men and women may have important implications across diverse interventions ...
President Donald Trump is a walking, talking rhetorical fallacy. We should know this by now because he’s been dumbing down our public discourse for years, but it’s worth revisiting as he tries to ram ...
People often ask me how they can avoid misinformation. I wish there was an easy answer, but effectively avoiding misinformation means reevaluating our relationship with information. The perpetuation ...
A quick guide to logical fallacies. Fallacies include ad hominem, appeals to authority, the fallacy fallacy, circular arguments, etc. Video analysis of Renee Nicole Good’s death following ICE shooting ...
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