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I wrote a lot about Pranaitis in a couple of places, one here about the Mendel Beilis trial, and another about his plagiarizing Eisenmenger...

I love Linda. You will, too, if you pay attention, because Linda is why conspiracy theories are fallacies. You may have heard of the Linda p...

Andrey's parents were not married when he was born. His last name is his mother's maiden name at that time. Her name changed upon he...

A few days ago I found on Internet Archive, three years of copies of the Kievlyanin newspaper, from 1911 to 1913 inclusive.  I'm startin...

Fallacies are errors in logic. Logic is not “a wreath of pretty flowers that smells bad.” Nor is it wordplay. Logic connects up with two f...

I am deactivating my Twitter account. If you have not bookmarked this page, it's time to do that, and check back on Sundays for the rest...

I wish I didn’t feel compelled to do this, but people with the best and worst intentions in the world both promulgate fallacies. It’s part...