Here at Snopes, we encounter our fair share of logical fallacies, or errors in reasoning, that tend to be more persuasive than they ought to be, and are based on poor or faulty logic. In previous ...

I have a motto for this work: To name it is to tame it. I search for terms that enable us to label common mental “moves,” especially the faulty ones. If you have a name for a move, you’re prepared to ...