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Fallacies: Red Herring

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In this Wireless Philosophy video, Joseph Wu (University of Cambridge) introduces you to the red herring, a rhetorical device and fallacy that is often difficult to spot. A red herring occurs when something is introduced to an argument that misleads or distracts from the relevant issue. Wu walks us through this rhetorical device and shows us how to avoid committing a fallacy.

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Is there any facebook group targeting logical fallacies?

I am aware of fact checking groups but not of consistency checking ones
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I can really appreciate you using law examples to explain this. I clearly get it!
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What is the difference between a red herring and a straw-man fallacy? They seem potentially similar.
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