TagsTagsblogherenow.net They say you can't fight fire with fire. Actually, you can. But what you really can't do - at least effectively - is fight what you identify as fallacious reasoning with precisely the same style of fallacious reasoning. George Will provides a striking illustration of this self-defeating pattern of reasoning ...
George Will, Elizabeth Warren, Fallacious Reasoning, Liberalism, conservatism, Rhetoric
The University of Pennsylvania’s Institute for Cognitive Research has a blog called Language Log, and they were ready for George Will’s ridiculous word-counting column: Fact-checking George F. Will, one more time. As a result of this previous experience, I had a first-person-counting script all ready to go, and it took ...
Here’s George Will, taking a break from distorting and misrepresenting climate science to promote the latest right wing talking point: Barack and Michelle Obama are malignant narcissists. Will proves this by counting words in their Copenhagen speeches. This isn’t simply a weak argument; it’s not an argument at all. It’s an ...
Now that Afghanistan and Iraq are Barack Obama’s problems, it’s suddenly becoming fashionable for right-wing pundits to call for cutting and running. Days after urging the withdrawal of U.S. combat forces from Afghanistan, conservative columnist George F. Will is calling on the administration to speed up the planned drawdown in ...
Science writer Carl Zimmer is calling out George Will again, this time for misrepresenting climate change statistics published by the World Meteorological Organization: George Will, Now With Misleading Links! One of the more egregious lines from George Will’s recent columns on global warming is the claim that real data shows ...
Time for the next round in the controversy over George Will’s recent column for the Washington Post on climate change, and results reported/disputed by the University of Illinois’ Arctic Climate Research Center. Here’s the relevant section from Will’s new column: As for the anonymous scientists’ unspecified claims about the column’s ...
Global Warming, Climate Change, George Will, Carl Zimmer, Washington Post, Fact Checking
Carl Zimmer has posted an interesting response to the points that were raised repeatedly in yesterday’s comment thread on George Will’s climate change column: A Wrinkle In Ice (or Not). In his reply to me, Chapman explained that the two research centers, NSIDC and ACRC, both use the SSMI satellite ...
Global Warming, Climate Change, George Will, Carl Zimmer, Washington Post, Fact Checking
No matter where you stand on the issue of anthropogenic climate change, surely we can all agree that misrepresenting facts isn’t going to help anyone understand the subject—and calls into question the motives of those who do it: The Sea Ice Affair, Continued. Monday I bemoaned the lack of fact-checking ...
Global Warming, Climate Change, George Will, Carl Zimmer, Washington Post, Fact Checking