Name | Description | Example |
Conspiracy theory | Proposing that a secret plan exists to implement a nefarious scheme such as hiding a truth. | “The climategate emails prove that climate scientists have engaged in a conspiracy to deceive the public.” |
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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