There are many different types of logical fallacies, but they all share one common effect: to mislead people into thinking that the conclusion is valid. Dr. Warren Willey is a Pocatello physician.

Sometimes considered a type of red herring – a logical fallacy that uses unrelated information to redirect away from the argument's flaws – whataboutism is intended to distract attention.

All fallacies are errors in logic, ergo any fallacy is a “logical” fallacy. Working one of them into an argument is, by definition “bad logic” and working two of them in is just worse logic.

The biggest lie those who create and spread misinformation perpetrate is that they want you to think for yourself. They warn ...

In any discussion of evolutionary psychology, or human sciences in general, it is very important to avoid two logical fallacies. They are called the naturalistic fallacy and the moralistic fallacy.

Behind the Bylines: Confronting misinformation and our own logical fallacies Misinformation is a process that quietly reshapes our perceptions and spreads outward to others.

I don’t mean to pick on Dargan Pete again, but his Jan. 15 column is a classic example of the “straw man” logical fallacy. For those readers who didn’t have a secondary school English ...