Name | Description | Example |
False analogy | Assuming that because two things are alike in some ways, they are alike in some other respect. | “Climate skeptics are like Galileo who overturned the scientific consensus about geocentrism.” |
Learn more about the fallacies in this graphics category in the blog post A history of FLICC: the 5 techniques of science denial
German definition (Falsche Analogie)
Dutch definition (Valse vergelijking)
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