False information signals more false information

CONTENTS

Introduction
Sellers' Market
Will to Believe
Rules of Thumb

"The truth is out there "
Use & misuse of words
False information signals more false information
Technical whiz-bang
Understand the Context
Lies, More Lies, Damn Lies and Newspapers
Beware of Generalizations
Theology and scripture
Misleading Statistics
Smoke in your eyes: a picture can be worth a thousand lies
What is Missing?
Myth versus fact versus narrative
The past was not like the present; the future will be different

Fallacy Recognition in the Middle East

Fallacies and Arguments
Cause and Effect
Slippery Slope
Gambler's Fallacy
Ad Hominem
Authority
Beliefs
Appeal to Novelty
Appeal to Emotion
Appeal to Tradition
False Dilemma or Black and White Thinking
Special Pleading
The Spotlight Fallacy
Who is to Say?

Fallacy Handbook

False information signals more false information

You can't know everything, but you do know some things. If a story or narrative includes some "facts" that you know are not true, the value of the rest of the item is in doubt. Journalist A certain journalist apparently invented stories about the Middle East conflict, which he published as news accounts. In one of them, he relates that he saw an orthodox Jewish settler put on his kippah before killing Arabs. Since orthodox Jews must always wear their skull caps, this story sounded very unlikely. A Web site that captions a picture "Jabotinsky in his Fascist uniform" and shows Jabotinsky in a uniform of the World War I Jewish Legion, is not a reliable source of information. That doesn't mean you cannot learn anything from it, but be careful!

Check information - The World Wide Web is becoming an increasingly valuable source of information, that can be used to check out claims and counter claims. If someone presents a "study" showing that cholesterol levels are unrelated to heart disease. If someone tells you to vote for candidate X rather than candidate Y because candidate X is bad for your favorite cause, check the voting record of candidate X and candidate Y before deciding. A good encyclopedia or history book is also useful for checking facts.

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False information signals more false information

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