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| Twenty-five Fallacies That Lead Us to Believe Weird Things | | 1. Theory Influences Observations | | 2. The Observer Changes the Observed | | 3. Equipment Constructs Results | | 4. Anecdotes Do Not Make a Science | | 5. Scientific Language Does Not Make a Science | | 6. Bold Statements Do Not Make Claims True | | 7. Heresy Does Not Equal Correctness | | 9. Rumors Do Not Equal Reality | | 10. Unexplained Is Not Inexplicable | | 11. Failures Are Rationalized | | 12. After-the-Fact Reasoning | | 15. Emotive Words and False Analogies | | 17. Ad Hominem and Tu Quoque | | 19. Overreliance on Authorities | | 22. Reductio ad Absurdum and the Slippery Slope | | 23. Effort Inadequacies and the Need for Certainty, Control, and Simplicity | | 24. Problem-Solving Inadequacies | | 25. Ideological Immunity, or the Planck Problem | | |
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