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Fallacy'/><category term='Occam&apos;s Razor'/><category term='False Analogy'/><category term='Skepticism'/><category term='Fake but True'/><category term='Induction'/><category term='by Jef'/><category term='Reductio Ad Absurdum'/><category term='Critical Thinking'/><category term='Moving the Goalposts'/><category term='Simple-Minded Certitude'/><category term='ad hominem'/><category term='False dilemma'/><category term='Fallacy List'/><category term='Fallacy.'/><category term='Jeni Barnett'/><category term='Autism'/><category term='John Howard'/><category term='Vaccines'/><category term='mathematics'/><category term='beclown'/><category term='psychics'/><category term='Appeal to Celebrity.'/><category term='Ambiguity'/><category term='Sanctimony'/><category term='Cake'/><category term='Double Blind'/><category term='Hunting Humbug 101'/><category term='Friday 13'/><category term='Penn and Teller'/><category term='medicine'/><category term='GIGO.'/><title type='text'>Comments on The Skeptic's Field Guide: Examples of the WTF? Fallacy</title><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.skepticsfieldguide.net/feeds/115374715235724184/comments/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9617943/115374715235724184/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.skepticsfieldguide.net/2006/07/examples-of-wtf-fallacy.html'/><author><name>Theo Clark</name><uri>https://profiles.google.com/108645831840656817487</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//lh5.googleusercontent.com/-83lTj1Jgnus/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAAXkM/NaIIN84I_is/s512-c/photo.jpg'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>4</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9617943.post-115387318309866793</id><published>2006-07-26T10:19:00.000+10:00</published><updated>2006-07-26T10:19:00.000+10:00</updated><title type='text'>Just a suggestion, but frick, fricking, fricked et...</title><content type='html'>Just a suggestion, but frick, fricking, fricked etc are useful substitutes for the f-word as they are less awkward than (say) "expletive deleted", and can be used as noun, adverb and adjectival form... and therefore fit nicely into the structure of sentences where frick and its derivatives are used as substitutes for... well, "frick"... if you know what I mean.</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9617943/115374715235724184/comments/default/115387318309866793'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9617943/115374715235724184/comments/default/115387318309866793'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.skepticsfieldguide.net/2006/07/examples-of-wtf-fallacy.html?showComment=1153873140000#c115387318309866793' title=''/><author><name>Jef Clark</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07471801270613088924</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='http://www.skepticsfieldguide.net/2006/07/examples-of-wtf-fallacy.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9617943.post-115374715235724184' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9617943/posts/default/115374715235724184' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='blogger.itemClass' value='pid-367693384'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9617943.post-115383378922387538</id><published>2006-07-25T23:23:00.000+10:00</published><updated>2006-07-25T23:23:00.000+10:00</updated><title type='text'>Gosh, sorry.&lt;br&gt; I got carried away. The word[inap...</title><content type='html'>Gosh, sorry.&lt;BR/&gt; I got carried away. The word[inappropriate language]kinda does that to me. I Forgot about the kiddies.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Thanks ben, I'm sure that's it.</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9617943/115374715235724184/comments/default/115383378922387538'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9617943/115374715235724184/comments/default/115383378922387538'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.skepticsfieldguide.net/2006/07/examples-of-wtf-fallacy.html?showComment=1153833780000#c115383378922387538' title=''/><author><name>L&gt;T</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13606249934759030832</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='http://www.skepticsfieldguide.net/2006/07/examples-of-wtf-fallacy.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9617943.post-115374715235724184' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9617943/posts/default/115374715235724184' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='blogger.itemClass' value='pid-1616278349'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9617943.post-115380894523714558</id><published>2006-07-25T16:29:00.000+10:00</published><updated>2006-07-25T16:29:00.000+10:00</updated><title type='text'>It's probably because women inhabit a bizarre para...</title><content type='html'>It's probably because women inhabit a bizarre parallel reality where 'Smacco's Razor'(reverse of Occam's Razor) applies. I.e. the more assumptions/steps in an explanation for a phenomenon, the more likely it is to be true...</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9617943/115374715235724184/comments/default/115380894523714558'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9617943/115374715235724184/comments/default/115380894523714558'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.skepticsfieldguide.net/2006/07/examples-of-wtf-fallacy.html?showComment=1153808940000#c115380894523714558' title=''/><author><name>Ben</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img1.blogblog.com/img/blank.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='http://www.skepticsfieldguide.net/2006/07/examples-of-wtf-fallacy.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9617943.post-115374715235724184' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9617943/posts/default/115374715235724184' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='blogger.itemClass' value='pid-397830567'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9617943.post-115380883965395466</id><published>2006-07-25T16:27:00.000+10:00</published><updated>2006-07-25T16:27:00.000+10:00</updated><title type='text'>on the downside...since WTF always implies derisio...</title><content type='html'>on the downside...since WTF always implies derision &amp; incredulity, my husband throws a WTF at me when I am making Perfect sense just so HE doesn't have to continue the discussion. &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I in turn have to say something using the word [inappropriate language] because when someone throws a [inappropriate language] at you what can you come back with but another [inappropriate language]? Then it's a [inappropriate language]ing free for all...[inappropriate language]ing idiot, [inappropriate language]ing jerk, shut the [inappropriate language] up. &lt;BR/&gt;any suggestions?</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9617943/115374715235724184/comments/default/115380883965395466'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9617943/115374715235724184/comments/default/115380883965395466'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.skepticsfieldguide.net/2006/07/examples-of-wtf-fallacy.html?showComment=1153808820000#c115380883965395466' title=''/><author><name>ltart</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img1.blogblog.com/img/blank.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='http://www.skepticsfieldguide.net/2006/07/examples-of-wtf-fallacy.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9617943.post-115374715235724184' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9617943/posts/default/115374715235724184' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='blogger.itemClass' value='pid-841128978'/></entry></feed>
