The Info-pollution Lexicon

• Arguments

• Brownlash

• Ad hominem arguments, poisoning the well

• alternative explanations

• Anti-environmental myths

• Appeal to authority  

• Appeal to ignorance.

• Appeal to popularity 

• Arbitrariness  

• NEW Argument by analogy

• Arguments From Age.  

• Burden of proof.

• The certainty principle

• The complex or loaded question

• Composition and Division

• Creationism

• Critical thinking

• Distraction

• Dogma

• Equivocation

• Euphemisms

• Fallacies, tricks and errors

• Fallacies of evidence and causality including hasty generalization, biased data, cherry picking, confirmation bias, gamblers's fallacy, clusters, post hoc fallacy and correlation

• The fallacy fallacy

• False dichotomy.

• False negatives

• False positives

• Front groups

• NEW The Galileo gambit

• Hoaxes

• Inconsistency  

• Jargon and Mubo-jumbo

• Keep it positive.

• Kettle defense

• NEW The Lawsuit Defense

• Mathematical fallacies

• Omitted evidence

• Poisoning the well

• The projection tactic

• Propaganda

• Public relations

• Quote mining

• Red herring  

• Fallacies about rules including special pleading, the double standard, moving the goalposts and the moving target.

• Scams and frauds

• Scare tactics including appeal to force or threat, appeal to fear, scare words, and slippery slope arguments.

• Skepticism

• Spam

• Stealing thunder

• Straw man. .

• Straw opponent  

• Wishful thinking  

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Written by Jim Norton

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