{"id":788,"date":"2008-09-14T04:54:43","date_gmt":"2008-09-14T09:54:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=788"},"modified":"2008-09-14T04:54:43","modified_gmt":"2008-09-14T09:54:43","slug":"obvious-to-the-most-casual-observer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/788","title":{"rendered":"Obvious to the Most Casual Observer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pixcapacitor.com\/2008\/09\/spot-the-logical-fallacy\">Spot the Logical Fallacy<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>While I was watching the political convention last week (and the week before as well, actually), it astounded me at how often the speakers would resort to obvious logical fallacies.  I counted five false dichotomies and four straw men within the Sarah Palin speech alone.  Now, just to not be political: I\u2019m sure Joe Biden also committed a whole bunch of logical fallacies, I just didn\u2019t think about it until I heard Sarah Palin \u2018poison the well\u2018 against Barack Obama.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Just discovering this, are we?  That&#8217;s one reason that I dislike politics, and I was under the general assumption that others capable of spotting such arguments (e.g. scientists) felt the same way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spot the Logical Fallacy While I was watching the political convention last week (and the week before as well, actually), it astounded me at how often the speakers would resort to obvious logical fallacies. I counted five false dichotomies and &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/788\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[298],"class_list":["post-788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-logical-fallacies-in-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}