One might have hoped that educators would have gotten past straw-man arguments such as those found in Peter Berger’s Commentary “Predicting the Past” (April 1, 2009). No responsible advocate of ...

Source: Neel Burton History is full of brilliant people who believed ridiculous things. Isaac Newton devoted years to ...

The conservative movement has a lot of beliefs that are at odds with consensus positions within economics, social sciences in general, and even the physical sciences. Those few conservatives who who ...

Yesterday Michael Dell gave in to a straw man argument. (I assume that's Ray Bolger at the right.) The straw man in this case is the Microsoft-led argument that using Linux carries patent risks. It ...

So by now, in this world of mis-, dis- and sometimes just plain weird information, you have heard of a straw man argument? Maybe, maybe not? I’d take a guess though that you will probably have been on ...