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The Daisy Ad and an Appeal to Fear

The following video is a campaign ad used by the Johnson campaign in the 1964 election bid against Barry Goldwater.  It was subsequently pulled from the air after only a...

The Interview from Hell and the Ad Hominem Fallacy

This video shows an interview of Reza Aslan by Fox News host Lauren Green that demonstrates the Ad Hominem Fallacy. The interview is supposed to focus on the content of...

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To view a contributors bio, click Hsiang-Yun Chen Hsiang-Yun Chen is an assistant research fellow at The Institute of European and American Studies (IEAS) at Academia Sinica and works primarily...

Direct TV and the Slippery Slope Fallacy

This video is a compilation of amusing Direct TV commercials which can be used to demonstrate the slippery slope fallacy.  Each one follows the same sort of progression.  It starts...

The Fallacy of False Analogy and Mercedes Benz

This short commercial tells the story of Raymond. Raymond, it seems, has denied himself ice cream despite desperately wanting it and having no real reason to continue denying himself this...

Timothy McGarvey

Timothy McGarvey is a PhD student at the University of South Florida where he works primarily on Friedrich Nietzsche and Environmental Ethics. Tweet...