Examples of Special Pleading

The advocate claims special insights into an issue, and that the opponent is incapable of achieving the same level of understanding.

• iPhone - you get it or you don't
• An anecdote about dowsers being double-blind to their special pleading
• Special Pleading Olympics
• Special pleading and arts wankers
• Pithy and ironic aphorisms on some fallacies in thinking
• Rewards are bad… okaaay…?

For a comprehensive and considered written commentary on Special Pleading (and other fallacies) - see The skeptic's field guide to spotting fallacies in thinking - Humbug!

Podcast on Special Pleading:

Download: http://www.archive.org/download/HuntingHumbug101Episode1-WhatIsHumbug/23Tutorial23-SpecialPleading.mp3