One of my colleagues here at The Rachel Maddow Show reminded me this afternoon of comments President Obama made to Associated Press last week about the false-equivalence fallacy. Obama said, "I think ...

There are many messages from science that bear repeating. One of them is that correlation does not mean causation. When headlines include a cause-effect conclusion based on correlational evidence, ...

Fallacies and false narratives are like cancers in a society. Just like a cancer can go undetected for years without causing any real damage to the body, so can fallacies and false narratives destroy ...

THE biggest lie told by those who create and spread misinformation is that they want you to think for yourself. They warn their target audience not to be “sheep” and not to let themselves be told what ...

In these cases, the false cause fallacy might be strengthened by stereotypes or prejudice toward black people or the police, respectively. Very recently, a headline stated that correlational data ...

A fallacy is a mistake in reasoning. It can undermine your case. Therefore, it is important to examine your own planned written and oral presentations. Also, carefully consider opposing presentations ...

President Obama’s Nobel Prize acceptance speech in Oslo on Thursday featured one of his favorite rhetorical devices: the false choice. “Within America, there has long been a tension between those who ...

In an era of real-time news and growing media consumption, came a presidential election like no other. Did the media create the Donald Trump phenomenon? Or is he merely the embodiment of an ...