<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9617943.post5326056303998250689..comments</id><updated>2009-05-15T21:17:56.725+10:00</updated><category term='Appeal to Authority'/><category term='Pseudoscience'/><category term='Devil&apos;s Advocate'/><category term='Humbug'/><category term='Oprah'/><category term='Naturalistic Fallacy'/><category term='free'/><category term='Stacking the Deck'/><category term='Altruism'/><category term='Climate Change'/><category term='Race'/><category term='Michael Moore'/><category term='Wishful Thinking'/><category term='Substitution'/><category term='The Devil&apos;s Advocate'/><category term='Comments Policy'/><category term='Distortatures'/><category term='Optical Illusion'/><category term='George Bush'/><category term='Misuse of Information'/><category term='Scientology.'/><category term='Exaggerated Conflict'/><category term='Perfect Solution'/><category term='Unfounded Generalisation'/><category term='Jef&apos;s Cartoons'/><category term='Bingo'/><category term='Appeal to Celebrity'/><category term='plausibility test'/><category term='Neuroscience'/><category term='Obsevational Selection'/><category term='Dr Evil'/><category term='Slippery Slope'/><category term='eBook'/><category term='Homeopathy'/><category term='Darwin'/><category term='Gibberish'/><category term='Bad Science'/><category term='Argument by Slogan'/><category term='U2.'/><category term='Nocebo effect'/><category term='Poisoning the Well'/><category term='Skeptics of Carlos'/><category term='Conspiracy Theories'/><category term='Name that Fallacy'/><category term='Brain Teaser'/><category term='lmgtgy'/><category term='Argument by Artifice'/><category term='Burden of Proof'/><category term='Moral Equivalence'/><category term='Creationism'/><category term='public draft'/><category term='Browbeating'/><category term='Self Defeating Argument'/><category term='False Positioning'/><category term='Terry McCrann'/><category term='epistemology'/><category term='Factoid Propagation'/><category term='Fallacy'/><category term='iPhone'/><category term='Astrology'/><category term='Bono'/><category term='belief'/><category term='Evolution'/><category term='Personal Abuse'/><category term='Skeptic Zone'/><category term='postdiction'/><category term='Jenny McCarthy'/><category term='Inversion'/><category term='False Dichotomy'/><category term='LAME'/><category term='paranormal'/><category term='Skeptics&apos; Circle'/><category term='Superstition'/><category term='Education'/><category term='Brain Gym'/><category term='False Cause; Correlation Error'/><category term='Random'/><category term='PETA'/><category term='Mike Carlton'/><category term='Germaine Greer'/><category term='LOL'/><category term='Sanal Edamaruku is a legend'/><category term='Cultural Origins'/><category term='Christopher Hitchens'/><category term='Technology'/><category term='Memes'/><category term='The Secret'/><category term='Podcast'/><category term='cacoethes'/><category term='Genes'/><category term='Begging the Question'/><category term='Cricket'/><category term='briskepticon'/><category term='Al Gore'/><category term='Philosophy'/><category term='Logic'/><category term='words worth espousing'/><category term='Red Herring'/><category term='Phillip Adams'/><category term='Survey'/><category term='Socratic Method'/><category term='Chiropractic'/><category term='immunised hypothesis'/><category term='Impugning Motives'/><category term='empirical evidence'/><category term='falsification'/><category term='Hume&apos;s Razor'/><category term='Spinning another hypothesis'/><category term='Bill Bryson'/><category term='South Park'/><category term='Audio'/><category term='Weasel Words'/><category term='Non-sequitur'/><category term='Popular Opinion'/><category term='misconception'/><category term='2nd edition'/><category term='Eager Beaver'/><category term='Burden of solution'/><category term='by Theo'/><category term='False Attribution'/><category term='denialism'/><category term='Android'/><category term='humbug hunting'/><category term='non-fallacy'/><category term='Bad Faith'/><category term='Facebook'/><category term='Dr Phil'/><category term='Argument to Consequences'/><category term='Straw Man'/><category term='science'/><category term='Noel Pearson'/><category term='Special Pleading'/><category term='Aliens'/><category term='LAMEASS-OTM'/><category term='learning styles'/><category term='Red Flag Faux Pas'/><category term='Miscellany'/><category term='Physics'/><category term='WTF? 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: Poisoning Obama's Well with Straw Men and Weasel W...</title><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.skepticsfieldguide.net/feeds/5326056303998250689/comments/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9617943/5326056303998250689/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.skepticsfieldguide.net/2008/11/poisoning-obamas-well-with-straw-men.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>3</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9617943.post-9006187771160212310</id><published>2009-05-15T21:17:00.000+10:00</published><updated>2009-05-15T21:17:00.000+10:00</updated><title type='text'>Hey Anon.

I just post about whatever fallacies I ...</title><content type='html'>Hey Anon.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I just post about whatever fallacies I happen to come across. If you have some specific examples of Obama's use of Straw men - email them to me and if I agree he is fallacious I'll post em. I don't really follow US politics too much (being Australian) with the exception of US elections. And this particular example was very prominent in the media and was also very obvious.</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9617943/5326056303998250689/comments/default/9006187771160212310'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9617943/5326056303998250689/comments/default/9006187771160212310'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.skepticsfieldguide.net/2008/11/poisoning-obamas-well-with-straw-men.html?showComment=1242386220000#c9006187771160212310' title=''/><author><name>Theo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07342708791160461777</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='21' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_3uX0YRWLp50/SPB7QU5RZEI/AAAAAAAAAE0/tfi6OZDRVRw/S220/TC+Simpsons.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='http://www.skepticsfieldguide.net/2008/11/poisoning-obamas-well-with-straw-men.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9617943.post-5326056303998250689' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9617943/posts/default/5326056303998250689' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='blogger.itemClass' value='pid-657448792'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9617943.post-5077469355850237726</id><published>2009-05-14T18:48:00.000+10:00</published><updated>2009-05-14T18:48:00.000+10:00</updated><title type='text'>you have an interesting blog, but it's amazing to ...</title><content type='html'>you have an interesting blog, but it's amazing to me that you haven't commented on Obama's use of the straw man, roughly on a weekly basis.  I am not stating that you have a bias, just wondering why you choose not to pick apart his often times fallacious rhetoric along with everyone else.</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9617943/5326056303998250689/comments/default/5077469355850237726'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9617943/5326056303998250689/comments/default/5077469355850237726'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.skepticsfieldguide.net/2008/11/poisoning-obamas-well-with-straw-men.html?showComment=1242290880000#c5077469355850237726' title=''/><author><name>Anonymous</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/2008/11/poisoning-obamas-well-with-straw-men.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9617943.post-5326056303998250689' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9617943/posts/default/5326056303998250689' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='blogger.itemClass' value='pid-922137336'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9617943.post-4596905686138819899</id><published>2008-11-25T04:57:00.000+10:00</published><updated>2008-11-25T04:57:00.000+10:00</updated><title type='text'>&lt;a href="http://edmundstanding.blogspot.com/2008/1...</title><content type='html'>&lt;A HREF="http://edmundstanding.blogspot.com/2008/11/anti-christian-anti-semite-hate-monger.html" REL="nofollow"&gt;Poisoning the well with weasel words&lt;/A&gt;.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Love the book, blog, and podcasts, by the way!</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9617943/5326056303998250689/comments/default/4596905686138819899'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9617943/5326056303998250689/comments/default/4596905686138819899'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.skepticsfieldguide.net/2008/11/poisoning-obamas-well-with-straw-men.html?showComment=1227553020000#c4596905686138819899' title=''/><author><name>Edmund Standing</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04932717255078278927</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='29' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_xkIF0kiO1WM/SRaw3CNg9NI/AAAAAAAAAAM/AgFfHQprF3w/S220/eblogger.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='http://www.skepticsfieldguide.net/2008/11/poisoning-obamas-well-with-straw-men.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9617943.post-5326056303998250689' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9617943/posts/default/5326056303998250689' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='blogger.itemClass' value='pid-489279348'/></entry></feed>
