by pcslim » Fri Aug 30, 2019 8:28 am
wildrose: There's a lot of fake science going on at this time. Sometimes the studies themselves are seriously flawed and sometimes it's just the claims people make about the studies that are flawed. A bigger problem is that there are lots of logic impaired people floating around these days. There is the rhetorical appearance of a logical argument and a legitimately logical argument and many people can't tell the difference. As you say, this is often the case with elected officials since they are quite often logic imparied. Many highly verbal people do not have reasoning skills and say ridiculously stupid things, but say these things so well that people are actually persuaded by the pseudo-arguments they make. Conversely, many highly intelligent people have difficulty communicating with logic impaired individuals.