Faults in the argument itself: the step from premises to conclusion does not hold.

• Ad hominem
• Logical fallacies
• Appeal to authority
• Appeal to emotion
• Circular reasoning
• Equivocation
• False dilemma (false dichotomy)
• False equivalence
• Hasty generalization
• The loaded question
• Moving the goalposts
• No true Scotsman
• Non sequitur
• Post hoc ergo propter hoc
• The red herring fallacy
• The slippery slope fallacy
• The straw man fallacy
• The bandwagon effect
• Composition and division
• Tu quoque

Faults in the judgement: what you noticed, how it was worded, what you wanted to be true.

• Cognitive bias
• The Dunning Kruger effect
• Anchoring bias
• Cherry picking
• Confirmation bias
• Groupthink
• Hindsight bias
• Motivated reasoning
• Negativity bias
• Recency bias
• Self serving bias
• Survivorship bias
• The Barnum effect
• The availability heuristic
• The framing effect
• The halo effect
• The sunk cost fallacy

How an argument is built, and the two ways a conclusion can follow from premises.

• Critical thinking exercises
• Logical reasoning
• Argument structure
• Critical thinking skills
• Deductive reasoning
• Deductive vs inductive reasoning
• Inductive reasoning
• Valid vs sound arguments

What counts as evidence, who has to produce it, and what would settle the question.

• Epistemology
• Occam's razor
• What counts as evidence
• Anecdotal evidence
• Burden of proof
• Correlation vs causation
• Falsifiability

Where the claim came from, and what survives the journey to the headline.

• Evaluating sources
• Media literacy
• Peer review
• Primary vs secondary sources
• Publication bias

The checks to run on a statistic before believing anything it is used to prove.

• Reading numbers
• Misleading graphs
• Regression to the mean
• Sample size
• Selection bias
• Statistical significance
• The base rate fallacy
• The gambler's fallacy
• The null hypothesis

The method as a procedure for not fooling yourself, and what pseudoscience leaves out.

• The scientific method
• Cold reading
• Control groups and blinding
• Pseudoscience
• The placebo effect

What this site is and is not.

• About this site
• Site index