NAME THAT FALLACY

It is ridiculous to have spent thousands of dollars to rescue those two whales trapped in the Arctic ice. Why look at all the people trapped in jobs they don’t like.

• False Dichotomy
• Red Herring
• Personal Attack
• Bandwagon
• Weak Analogy

Plagiarism is deceitful because it is dishonest.

• False Authority
• False Cause
• Hasty Generalization
• Cicular Logic
• Slippery Slope

Water fluoridation affects the brain. Citywide, student’s test scores began to drop five months after fluoridation began.

• Red Herring
• Slippery Slope
• Straw Man
• False Cause
• Bandwagon

I know three redheads who have terrible tempers, and since Annabel has red hair, I’ll bet she has a terrible temper too.

• False Cause
• Hasty Generalization
• Weak Analogy
• Irrelevant Conclusion
• Red Herring

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Supreme Court Justice Byron White was an All-American football player while in college, so how can you say that athletes are dumb?

• Hasty Generalization
• False Cause
• Slippery Slope
• False Appeal to Pity
• Begging the Question

You support capital punishment just because you want an “eye for an eye,” but I have several good reasons to believe that capital punishment is fundamentally wrong…

• Begging the Question
• Appeal to False Authority
• Non-Disproof
• False Appeal to Pity
• Straw Man

After being sentenced to five months in prison and two years' probation, Martha Stewart invoked the name of Nelson Mandela, South Africa's anti-apartheid hero, saying “there are many, many good people who have gone to prison.“

• Appeal to False Authority
• Non-Disproof
• Weak Analogy
• Cicular Logic
• Irrelevant Conclusion

The meteorologist predicted the wrong amount of rain for May. Obviously, the meteorologist is unreliable.

• False Cause
• Slippery Slope
• Hasty Generalization
• Straw Man
• Personal Attack

You know Julian Michaels’ exercise video’s must be worth the money. Look at the great shape she’s in.

• Irrelevant Conclusion
• Hasty Generalization
• Appeal to False Authority
• Cicular Logic
• False Cause

We have to stop the tuition increase! The next thing you know, they'll be charging $40,000 a semester!

• Hasty Generalization
• Irrelevant Conclusion
• Circular Logic
• Slippery Slope
• False Cause