Humbug! Online - a blog for iconoclasts

Regular postings based on fallacies covered in our book Humbug! (156 pages, 35 cartoons - see sidebar). Using a seamless combination of both passion and restraint, we expose erroneous thinking with irony, whimsy, sarcasm, satire, caricature, "distortature" and occasional breathtaking hypocrisy. Humbug! the book is a considered and carefully written commentary on fallacies. Humbug! the blog is less considered, more spontaneous and at times more outrageous. No poppy is too short to be lopped.

Saturday, January 15, 2005

Examples of False Dilemma

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

"Critical" literacy
Marking is pointless and fun says Alfie Kohn
Cyclonic Dilemma
Why not take money from NASA?

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!