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The full show notes for this episode can be found at our new website at Then we discuss some of the ways Trump is breaking the law about foreign and domestic emoluments.Īnd finally, we round up some of the other crazy Trump stories from the past week. Its the Democrats total weakness & incompetence that gave rise to ISIS not a tape of Donald Trump that was an admitted Hillary lie Donald J. This fallacy consists in diverting attention from the real issue by focusing instead on an issue having only a surface relevance to the first. If you produce a smokescreen by bringing up an irrelevant issue, then you produce a Red Herring Fallacy. It is also a digression that leads the reasoner off the track of considering only relevant information. Jim and Mark go head to head in a game of Fake News, the game where Mark has to guess which of three Trump quotes Jim made up. A red herring is a smelly fish that would distract even a bloodhound. In the Fallacy in the Wild, we check out examples from Family Guy and The Simpsons. 7, there will be protests at every Philippine Embassy and consulate throughout the world, including New York and San Francisco. The rise is consistent with reports that the job market is slowing after two years of red-hot activity.

In Mark's British Politics Corner we look at Boris Johnson using an actual smoked herring as a red herring, and then not answering a question in creative ways. The fallacies covered are 'Begging the Question, Circular Reasoning, Weak Analogy, Ad Hominem, Hasty or Sweeping Generality, Either/Or, Red Herring, Equivocation, Slippery Slope.

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This is a quiz game designed to teach students how to identify logical fallacies in an argument. Then, Trump named Tom Price to head the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), which has the ultimate responsibility for America’s vaccine program. We’re hoping Trump didn’t, but you never know. In the thirty-third episode we explore the Red Herring Fallacy, starting with examples from Trump claiming he'll knock the hell out of Isis to distract from the pussy grabbing tape and then insulting a Gold Star family. Below is The Fallacy Game Interesting Trivia Questions Quiz. Depending on the source, Trump either asked or didn’t ask Kennedy to chair a vaccine safety commission.