I argue that the tornado fallacy places the public at risk ... (Photo by Daniel Acker/Getty Images) ...

But the global area burned by wildfires has declined more than 25 percent since 2003. AFP via Getty Images ‘The Science,” we’re told, is settled. How many times have you heard it?

Getty Images / Monty Rakusen The lump of labor fallacy is the mistaken belief that there is a fixed amount of work available in the economy, and that increasing the number of workers decreases the ...

Our political blogger Dave Weigel readies for the (gerrymandering) battle. Photo by Oli Scarff/Getty Images Every so often, Nate Cohn writes something about how the political impact of ...

Sunk cost fallacy involves continuing investments due ... Image source: Getty Images. A sunk cost is an investment of time or money that's already been spent. Say you spend $1,000 to invest ...

This is the “Food Babe Fallacy.” The head of the “Food Babe Army” is known for a formulaic strategy: Promote bad science to condemn innocuous food ingredients. Demonize the ingredient with ...

Photo: Karolina Grabowska on Pexels.com, with key fob added from pngegg by autoevolution Ever hear about the sunk cost fallacy? Does that ring a bell? Well, if it doesn't, it may be the reason ...

One of the many dangers of the end state fallacy is the tendency to forget the causes of war—and how bad a given state could become in peacetime—until it becomes involved in a civil war or broader ...