Economist Paul Krugman was blasted on social media, and by an economist who spoke to FOX Business, over a tweet claiming that the latest CPI numbers show that inflation is "over" and that it was ...
Welcome to 2011! I'm honored that TNC has invited me back to kick off the week and the new year with my favorite merry band of reader-commenters in all of Internetland. For those of you who didn't get ...
The Internet is teeming with crazies, jerks, and blowhards; and in online forums, debaters are full of passionate intensity. Peruse the comments area on any popular blog, and you’ll find more ...
As a clinical psychologist, I have witnessed too many cases of women irreparably damaged by their decision to abort their fetuses to abide any more hackneyed arguments in support of a woman’s right to ...
The Slippery Slope Argument is an argument that concludes that if an action is taken, other negative consequences will follow. For example, “If event X were to occur, then event Y would (eventually) ...
The Union health ministry on Thursday dismissed media reports based on a published research paper alleging that India's COVID-19 mortality count is much higher than the official figure, which is ...
Recently, the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) published a fallacious and highly biased opinion article by Sadanand Dhume, which drew a comparison between Iran’s nuclear program and Pakistan’s. It puts a ...
In an era of “post-truth” and “truthiness,” it can be hard to defend the common-sense belief that reality exists independently of how people think about it. Skepticism about reality comes in many ...
FINANCE Minister Dr Nigel Clarke has refuted claims that the Government will collect $99 billion more in revenues, as a result of the high inflationary environment, in the next fiscal year which ...