Twenty-five Fallacies That Lead Us
to Believe Weird Things
1. Theory Influences Observations
2. The Observer Changes the Observed
3. Equipment Constructs Results
4. Anecdotes Do Not Make a Science
5. Scientific Language Does Not Make a Science
6. Bold Statements Do Not Make Claims True
7. Heresy Does Not Equal Correctness
9. Rumors Do Not Equal Reality
10. Unexplained Is Not Inexplicable
11. Failures Are Rationalized
12. After-the-Fact Reasoning
15. Emotive Words and False Analogies
17. Ad Hominem and Tu
Quoque
19. Overreliance on Authorities
22. Reductio ad Absurdum
and the Slippery Slope
23. Effort Inadequacies and
the Need for Certainty, Control, and Simplicity
24. Problem-Solving Inadequacies
25. Ideological Immunity, or the
Planck Problem
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