Here at Snopes, we encounter our fair share of logical fallacies, or errors in reasoning that tend to be more persuasive than they really are, and are based on poor or faulty logic. Indeed, changing ...

A quick guide to logical fallacies. Fallacies include ad hominem, appeals to authority, the fallacy fallacy, circular arguments, etc. Iran reacts to California surprise attack reports El Niño coming ...

Yuri Arcurs peopleimages.com / Getty Images/iStockphoto When I was in college, I remember naively signing up for a course called “Introduction to Logic.” It turned out to be one of the greatest ...

In logic and critical thinking, there are different types of cognitive biases and ways of faulty reasoning that lead to erroneous conclusions. Logicians refer to these as “fallacies.” One of the more ...