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Rebuttal of the Week #56: Why do adults not understand logical fallacies?


Going to Getugly: Unrelenting lies and fear mongering. Professor Carl Heneghan, epidemiologist at the Centre For Evidence Based Medicine at Oxford University:


“The falling number of hospital cases comes despite infections having been on the rise since lockdown restrictions were lifted at the start of July. Experts say this is because the groups getting infected and diagnosed now are completely different to those at the start of the pandemic. Scientists say it is younger people driving up infections and they are less likely to get seriously ill and end up in hospital. For that reason, hospital cases and deaths will not necessarily follow higher cases, and there may not be a deadly wave like the first.”


Mary Dale: Ooh Daily Mail. What do we need knowledgeable people for when we have the daily mail?


Going to Getugly: The people at the Daily Mail clearly are more knowledgeable than you about basic, high school level logic and reasoning. It’s simply bizarre that people like you are convinced you’re smart:


‘You judged something as either good or bad on the basis of where it comes from, or from whom it came. This fallacy avoids the argument by shifting focus onto something’s or someone’s origins. It’s similar to an ad hominem fallacy in that it leverages existing negative perceptions to make someone’s argument look bad, without actually presenting a case for why the argument itself lacks merit.’ YOURLOGICALFALLACYIS.COMYour logical fallacy is genetic


Mary Dale: You’re a genius. What can I say? Is your real name Dunning-Kruger? Lol


Going to Getugly: No Mary. That’s not how it works. It was just proven that you lack a basic-level awareness of how to reason effectively. Pretending it didn’t happen and acting like writing “Dunning-Kruger” will make it appear as if you’re not in the category to whom that term applies is piling absurdity on top of absurdity.

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