RE: Guess the Fallacy and What is the most common?
Also, in the example provided, "Amanda had committed a fallacy in arguing that we should eat healthy food because a nutritionist said it was popular, Alyse said we should therefore eat bacon double cheeseburgers every day." - falls prey to the "black and white" fallacy also known as the "false dichotomy" or "false choice" fallacy, which is another common and perverse tactic that presumes that "if one side of the argument has a flaw of any kind, that instantly and automatically "proves" the "opposite" side of the argument is "true".
For example, "Since you can't prove my personally preferred god DOESN'T exist, therefore my personally preferred god DOES exist!!!"
And of course, "Since you can't prove your personally preferred god DOES exist, therefore your personally preferred god DOESN'T exist!!!"
Both of these claims are logically incoherent (burden-of-proof fallacy and false-dichotomy and the ever-present appeal-to-ignorance by not rigorously defining key terms such as "god" and "exist").
A better claim would be a conditional statement, such as,
(IFF) an omnipotent, omniscient, creator of all things = exist (THEN) exist = all things (AND) god = all things (AND) all things = god (credit to Baruch Spinoza).
Correct. The 'false dichotomy' is used purposefully by the "media" to get folks to "throw the baby out with the bathwater", by strategically inserting an obvious lie, to obfuscate the truth that is also in plain site. "if one side of the argument has a 'lie' of any kind, all of the information is invalid".
Shock jocks like Alex Jones and such have perfected hiding the truth from the public, by telling them the truth with some obvious lies.....
Logical Fallacies are Sorcery. They might even have more force than the mighty metaphor.
Mixing truth with lies is a great way to brainwash people.
It's a classic con-artist technique, let the mark win (tell the truth) while they're cautious on the first three (small) "bets" and then SOAK THEM FOR ALL THEY'RE WORTH ON THE FOURTH,
...then tell them "that was a fluke, I'm 100% sure about the next one!!" (or, better yet, "let me make it up to you with this next premium super-exclusive stock-tip") and they'll borrow money from all their friends and then THEY GET SOAKED AGAIN ON THE FIFTH GAME.
Any idiots that stick around after that are perfect flunkies. Put them to work, you've got your own personal zealot.
I agree. They're a cheap trick that (inexplicably) keeps the sheeple from breaking out of their rather flimsy pen.
And now they're whipping the entire planet into a flipping frenzy over THE COMMON COLD.
When is their credibility going to drop below zero?
Here's an idea, JUST WAIT 20 YEARS AND THEN TELL THE EXACT SAME LIES ALL OVER AGAIN.