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"The biggest lie those who create and spread misinformation perpetrate is that
they want you to think for yourself. They warn their target audience not to be
“sheep” and not to let themselves be told what to believe by “mainstream”
voices, the “deep state” or other bogey men.
But in a classic case of misdirection, at the same time they warn you about
this, they deploy a range of manipulative tricks to ensure you don’t actually
think clearly or independently.
One of these tactics is to seduce you into subscribing to “logical fallacies”.
These are flawed patterns of reasoning that sound convincing but lead to false
or misleading conclusions.
Logical fallacies are like optical illusions of thought: convincing on the
surface, but ultimately an apparition. Like a magician who tries to convince
you he really has pulled a rabbit from a hat, getting you to fall for logical
fallacies is a sleight of hand that aims to trick you into believing something
is true that isn’t.
But when you know how a magic trick works, it no longer fools you. If you
recognise the most common logical fallacies and understand how they work, they
very quickly lose their power. Once you can see behind the curtain, the
illusion fades, and you begin to understand things as they really are.
Here are ten of the most common ones you need to be on the lookout for when it
comes to vaccine misinformation."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
