Logical Fallacies

My grandmother ate 10 cloves of raw garlic every day. Not surprisingly, she lived to be 102.

• False Cause

• Bandwagon

• Either/Or

• Non-Sequiter

If you don’t say the Pledge of Allegiance, then you must be a traitor.

• Slipper Slope

• Red Herring

• Either/Or

• False Authority

Studies show it takes up to seven years for the human body to digest a piece of gum.

• Hasty Generalization

• False Authority

• Ad Hominem

• Bandwagon

My opponent raises a good point, but can we really trust him? I mean, he moved to this town only two years ago and everyone knows that his wife left him.

• Circular Reasoning/Beg the Question

• Either/Or

• Slippery Slop

• Ad Hominem

If we vote that it's okay for them to raise the tuition at state universities, then they will raise it by thousands of dollars every single year and professors will double their salaries.

• False Cause

• Red Herring

• Slippery Slope

• Ad Hominem

Students from Jefferson High School are all so friendly and helpful. I’m sure of this because just last week I got lost and a very helpful and friendly student got me all straightened out.

• False Authority

• Ad Homenus

• Hasty Generalization

• False Cause

The parents want to ban Harry Potter from the school library. Next, they are going to want to ban hundreds of classics, starting with things like Charlotte's Web because it's violent!

• Slippery Slope

• False Authority

• Non Sequiter

• Either/Or

Katie likes to read and would rather do that than play sports. Her friends make fun of her and tell her that reading is for nerds. Katie stops reading so much and starts to play sports more.

• Hasty Generalization

• Ad Hominem

• Bandwagon

• Slippery Slope

The increase in global warming is due to more teenagers using hairspray.

• Bandwagon

• Ad Homenus

• Faulty Causality

• Slippery Slope

I deserve to have a later curfew, so you should let me stay out until 10pm!

• Slippery Slope

• Either-Or

• Circular Reasoning

• False Cause