This page is a resource for instructors providing examples to build custom assignments and lectures. I am constantly updating each page as I come across examples. If you find some good ones on your own, please send them my way and I’ll add them to the relevant page.

1. Common Argument Structures

• Arguments from Analogy: Examples

2. Fake, Overly Speculative, and Misleading News

• Fake and Speculative News Examples
• False and Misleading Medical Claims

3. Fallacies

• Ad Hominem/Circumstantial Ad Hominem, and Poisoning the Well: Examples
• Ad Populum/Appeal to Popularity
• Appeal to Qualified and Unqualified Authority: Examples
• Perfectionist (aka Nirvana) Fallacy
• Poisoning the Well: Examples
• Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc
• Red Herring: Examples
• Tu Quoque: Examples

4. Logic Problems and Formal Fallacies

• Inconsistent premises or Contradiction

5. Slanting by Omission/Misleading Comparisons and Statistics

• Misleading Comparisons: Examples
• Misleading with The Framing Effect: Examples

6. Rhetorical Devices and Language Problem

• Semantic, Syntactic, and Group Ambiguity: Examples

7. Science Denialism, Pseudoscience, and Conspiracism

• Science Denialism: Examples of Common Tricks
  • Common tricks alt-med uses to mislead plus comparison of alt-med vs standard treatment
• Bad and Misleading Science Reporting: Examples
• False and Misleading Medical Claims
• What’s the Harm in Believing Pseudoscience? (Good for classroom discussion)
• Climate Change Denialism: Example Articles
• “Free” Energy Debunked

8. Issues and Errors in Polling

• Examples
• Measurement Issues