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3 Fallacies For Election Season!

Written By PBS Idea Channel on Wednesday, Aug 31, 2016 | 03:48 PM

 
Viewers like you help make PBS (Thank you 😃) . Support your local PBS Member Station here: https://to.pbs.org/donateidea YOU DID A FALLACY Tweet us! http://bit.ly/pbsideachanneltwitter Idea Channel Facebook! http://bit.ly/pbsideachannelfacebook Talk about this episode on reddit! http://bit.ly/pbsideachannelreddit Idea Channel IRC! http://bit.ly/pbsideachannelirc Email us! pbsideachannel [at] gmail [dot] com In the US it’s presidential election season. There are lots of people expounding upon about all kinds of high stakes topics: what’s best for you, the country, what’s gonna keep everyone safe, and successful. Candidates, pundits, your pals: making points, making promises, making arguments. In the course of the political proceedings ... I’ve seen plenty of the fallacies we’ve covered before on Idea Channel, but there are a few cropping up that we haven’t yet covered–so I thought we’d better. Today we’ll discuss the “Appeal to Emotion Fallacy,” the “Non-Sequitur Fallacy” the “Appeal to Nature Fallacy” and how you might be seeing them pop up in this election season. Let us know what you think in the comments below! ---CHECK OUT OUR MERCH!--- http://bit.ly/1U8fS1B T-Shirts Designed by: http://artsparrow.com/ -- ATLAS OBSCURA EVENT -- http://www.atlasobscura.com/events/ny-atlas-obscura-live-rivals -- BOOK CLUB - https://www.reddit.com/r/pbsideachannel/comments/4x8r9c/idea_channel_book_club_borges/ -- Non Sequiturs, aka Formal Fallacies -- https://www.logicallyfallacious.com/tools/lp/Bo/LogicalFallacies/136/Non-Sequitur https://www.logicallyfallacious.com/tools/lp/Bo/LogicalFallacies/76/Denying-a-Conjunct http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Non_sequitur https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affirming_the_consequent https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denying_the_antecedent https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affirming_a_disjunct ---TWEET OF THE WEEK--- https://twitter.com/Kenkire/status/769772575996022784 ---ASSET LINKS--- 1:56 Nixon vs Kennedy photo - http://www.cnn.com/2013/01/08/politics/gallery/nixon/ 2:25 Helen Lovejoy Think of the Children - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RybNI0KB1bg 3:08 Salt Chart http://www.aarp.org/food/diet-nutrition/info-06-2010/less_salt_in_dailydiet.html 3:53 Non Sequitur definition https://www.logicallyfallacious.com/tools/lp/Bo/LogicalFallacies/136/Non-Sequitur 7:45 Humes Law http://slideplayer.com/slide/5313429/ 10:15 In Politics Sometimes Facts Don’t Matter http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=128490874 ---MUSIC--- https://soundcloud.com/montone-2/minimalist ----------------------------------------­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­------------------------­-­-­-­- Written and hosted by Mike Rugnetta (@mikerugnetta) (who also has a podcast! Reasonably Sound: http://bit.ly/1sCn0BF) Made by Kornhaber Brown (http://www.kornhaberbrown.com)