This is yet another clumsy attempt to employ the straw man method of trying to falsely discredit obvious cause and effect.
FORBES: Extradite Andrew Wakefield To Face Fraud Charges In The UK
So the notion of "Homo economicus, " schooled by capitalism to be shortsightedly selfish, is these days something of a straw man ("Homo stramineus"?).
Another sop to the soft-hearted 21st-century modern man is the option of using straw to pad your socks and hopefully cushion the blows.
In a straw man demonstration of the pitfalls in common statistical analysis, they showed that on the aggregate, women were accepted at a nearly 10% lower rate than men (35% to 44% respectively).
If the Boston Red Sox suffered through the Curse of the Bambino--an 86-year championship drought attributed to their sale of Babe Ruth to the Yankees--call the Mets' whammy the Curse of the Straw Man.
Mr. Taylor is guilty of serving up another one of his poor straw man arguments.
FORBES: News Alert To Climate Alarmists: Most Arctic Species Will Benefit From Global Warming
At the same time Gore drones on and on with character assassinations, straw man arguments and out-of-context weather anecdotes, more than two dozen global warming experts will join Watts discussing the science Al Gore hopes we will overlook.
FORBES: Finally, Al Gore Gets The Televised Debate He's Been Avoiding For Years
This is an example of using a red herring and straw man disinformation.
FORBES: Extradite Andrew Wakefield To Face Fraud Charges In The UK
It is not one based on an imagined straw poll of the partially informed hypothetical man on the street, but based on how a person of reasonable judgment, aware of all the facts, as well as how courts function, would decide.
Supposedly by attacking Wakefield, the primary author of the first highly publicized paper, who is a well-known proponent of the association of childhood vaccinations and autism, then the reality of cause and effect will supposedly just disappear and collapse like a straw man!
FORBES: Extradite Andrew Wakefield To Face Fraud Charges In The UK
Many of the foot-dragging arguments against the common supervisory plan were based on little more than straw man arguments.
应用推荐