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General Bogosity => The Podcast => Nominations for Biggest Bogon Emitter and Idiot Extraordinaire => Topic started by: Professor_Fennec on October 24, 2014, 04:04:42 AM

Title: PBS Idea Channel for Idiot Extraordinaire
Post by: Professor_Fennec on October 24, 2014, 04:04:42 AM
Mike Rugnetta releases a new video on common logical fallacies that we are already familiar with: straw man, argument from authority, ad hominem, etc.  But at the end of the video, he goes on to explain that he's not for #GamerGate because it has become associated with misogyny (though he avoids the use of this word by saying it by verbose definition), and he dismisses The Fine Young Capitalists as irrelevant. 

Cherry Picking: He dismisses the facts about #GamerGate that are against his narrative, but accepts only the facts that support his narrative. 
Arguing from Authority: Because journalists (non-scientist fuckwits) and major news media outlets have labeled #GamerGate as a misogynist group, Mike Rugnetta accepts this as a fact.
Straw Man: He says that #GamerGate isn't really about journalistic integrity, but about excluding minorities.   

So, after telling us all about logical fallacies, he trashes #GamerGate with fallacies, two of which he explained to us!  That's got to make him an Idiot Extraordinaire.   

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Scumbag PBS Idea Channel

Tells you all about logical fallacies.

Uses them to smear an out-group they don't like.