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Material for FLICC-Quiz Please mention Skeptical Science and Cranky Uncle when making use of this material! https://skepticalscience.com https://crankyuncle.com Taxonomy of Logical Fallacies Logical Impossible Conspiracy Fake Experts Cherry Picking Fallacies Expectations Theories Bulk Fake Moving the Slothful Fake Debate Anecdote experts Goalposts Induction False Misrepresen- Oversimpli- Slippery Ad Hominem Ambiguity Red Herring Analogy tation fication Slope False Single Strawman Choice Cause Taxonomy of Logical Fallacies used in the Cartoons Logical Impossible Conspiracy Fake Experts Cherry Picking Fallacies Expectations Theories Bulk Fake Moving the Slothful Fake Debate Anecdote experts Goalposts Induction False Misrepresen- Oversimpli- Slippery Ad Hominem Ambiguity Red Herring Analogy tation fication Slope False Single Strawman Choice Cause Definitions of Logical Fallacies used in the Quiz Impossible Expectations: Fake Experts: Presenting an Demanding unrealistic standards of unqualified person or institution as a certainty before acting on the source of credible information. science. Fake Debate: Presenting science and Moving the Goalposts: Demanding pseudoscience in an adversarial higher levels of evidence after format to give the false impression receiving requested levels of of an ongoing scientific debate. evidence. Ambiguity: Using ambiguous Cherry Picking: Carefully selecting language in order to lead to a data that appear to confirm one misleading conclusion. position while ignoring other data that contradicts that position. False Choice: Presenting two options Slothful Induction: Ignoring relevant as the only possibilities, when other evidence when coming to a possibilities exist. conclusion. Similar to cherry picking but with an emphasis on neglecting Single Cause: Assuming a single inconvenient information rather cause or reason when there might than highlighting convenient be multiple causes or reasons. information. Set of fallacy icons Fake Experts Bulk Fake Experts Fake Debate Logical Fallacy Ad Hominem Ambiguity False Analogy Misrepre- sentation Strawman Oversimpli- fication False Choice Single Cause Red Herring Slippery Slope Impossible Expectation Moving the Goalposts Cherry- picking Anecdote Slothful Induction Conspiracy Theories Set of cartoons crankyuncle.com crankyuncle.com crankyuncle.com crankyuncle.com crankyuncle.com crankyuncle.com crankyuncle.com crankyuncle.com crankyuncle.com Move the logical fallacy to the cartoon showing it 1 2 A B C 3 4 5 6 D E F 7 8 9 G H I Solution on the next slide! Solution: logical fallacy to the cartoon showing it 1 2 A2 B9 C4 3 4 5 6 D6 E8 F1 7 8 9 G5 H3 I7 Additional cartoons crankyuncle.com crankyuncle.com crankyuncle.com crankyuncle.com crankyuncle.com Additional cartoons – Solution on next slide Solution: logical fallacy to the cartoon showing it 1 A1 B1 C1 2 D1 E2 Cartoons & Icons created by John Cook Quiz created by Bärbel Winkler http://sks.to/BaerbelW [email protected] https://skepticalscience.com https://crankyuncle.com.

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