{"id":2055,"date":"2017-03-24T08:00:33","date_gmt":"2017-03-24T13:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/?p=2055"},"modified":"2017-02-27T09:13:57","modified_gmt":"2017-02-27T15:13:57","slug":"fact-fridays-logical-fallacies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/fact-fridays-logical-fallacies\/","title":{"rendered":"Fact Fridays &#8211; Logical Fallacies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A logical fallacy is a flaw in reasoning. Logical fallacies are like tricks or illusions of thought, and they&#8217;re often very sneakily used by politicians and the media to fool people. Don&#8217;t be fooled! This website has been designed to help you identify and call out dodgy logic wherever it may raise its ugly, incoherent\u00a0head. Rollover the icons above and click for examples.<\/p>\n<p>Download your own version from this <a href=\"https:\/\/yourlogicalfallacyis.com\/\">site<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/files\/2017\/02\/LogicalFallaciesInfographic_A3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2056 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/files\/2017\/02\/LogicalFallaciesInfographic_A3-1024x724.jpg\" width=\"620\" height=\"438\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/files\/2017\/02\/LogicalFallaciesInfographic_A3-1024x724.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/files\/2017\/02\/LogicalFallaciesInfographic_A3-300x212.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/files\/2017\/02\/LogicalFallaciesInfographic_A3-768x543.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A logical fallacy is a flaw in reasoning. Logical fallacies are like tricks or illusions of thought, and they&#8217;re often very sneakily used by politicians and the media to fool people. Don&#8217;t be fooled! This website has been designed to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/fact-fridays-logical-fallacies\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":500,"featured_media":2040,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ames-highlights"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/files\/2017\/02\/Fact-Friday-logo.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/500"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2055"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2055\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2057,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2055\/revisions\/2057"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}