Examples of False Dilemma

The advocate portrays one option as necessarily excluding another option, when in fact there is no necessary connection.

• Results are in: Name that fallacy
• A super False Dilemma with the LHC
  
• You can't vaccinate against ignorance...
  
• "Critical" literacy
• Marking is pointless and fun says Alfie Kohn
  
• Cyclonic Dilemma
• Why not take money from NASA?

In this podcast we discuss False Dichotomies and False Dilemmas.

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For a comprehensive and considered written commentary on False Dilemma (and other fallacies) - see The skeptic's field guide to spotting fallacies in thinking - Humbug!

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