- Ambiguity
- Appeal to Authority
- Appeal to Celebrity
- Argument by Artifice
- Argument by Slogan
- Argument to Consequences
- Bad Faith
- Begging the Question
- Browbeating
- Burden of Proof
- Burden of Solution
- Cultural Origins
- Exaggerated Conflict
- Factoid Propagation
- False Analogy
- False Attribution
- False Cause; Correlation Error
- False Compromise
- False Dichotomy
- False Dilemma
- False Positioning
- Gibberish
- GIGO Fallacy
- Immunised Hypothesis
- Impugning Motives
- LAME claim
- Misuse of Information
- Moral Equivalence
- Moving the Goalposts
- Naturalistic Fallacy
- Non Sequitur
- Observational Selection
- Personal Abuse
- Poisoning the Well
- Popular Opinion
- Red Flag Faux Pas
- Red Herrings
- Reductio Ad Absurdum
- Sanctimony
- Self Defeating Argument
- Simple-Minded Certitude
- Single cause
- Slippery Slope
- Special Pleading
- Stacking the Deck
- Unfounded Generalization
- Weasel Words
- Wishful Thinking
- WTF? Fallacy
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