Name | Description | Example |
Apples vs. oranges (aka false equivalence) | Incorrectly claiming that two things are equivalent, despite the fact that there are notable differences between them. | “Why all the fuss about COVID when thousands die from the flu every year.” |
Learn more about the fallacies in this graphics category in the blog post A history of FLICC: the 5 techniques of science denial
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