Debate Fallacies

McDonald's Hamburgers, over 99 billion served.

• Hasty Generalization

• Faulty Causation

• Ad Hominem

• Bandwagon

Michael Jordan, battery ad.

• Bandwagon

• Slippery Slope

• Either/Or

• Appeal to False Authority

Either you love bacon, or you're wrong.

• Hasty Generalization

• Scare Tactics

• Bandwagon

• Either/Or

• Scare Tactics

• Slippery Slope

• Ad Hominem

• Straw Man

Look at that face! Would anyone vote for that? Can you imagine that as the face of our next president?

• Faulty Causation

• Either/Or

• Appeal to False Authority

• Ad Hominem

Billy - "An apple is a vegetable." Bobby - "Don't listen to Billy; he failed Spanish class last year. "

• Ad hominem

• Straw Man

• Bandwagon

• Scare Tactics

Joan is scratched by a cat while visiting her friend. Two days later she comes down with a fever. Joan concludes that the cat's scratch must be the cause of her illness.

• Faulty Causation

• Appeal to False Authority

• Bandwagon

• Sentimental Appeal

I am voting for Smith for President because the rest of my family is voting for him.

• Hasty Generalization

• Straw Man

• Bandwagon Appeal

• Appeal to False Authority

You should never gamble. Once you start gambling you find it hard to stop. Soon you are spending all your money on gambling, and eventually you will turn to crime to support your earnings.

• Either/Or

• Slippery Slope

• Bandwagon

• Ad Hominem

"What do you mean you want to quit school? Your parents left their country and moved to the U.S. so that you could have a better future. Is that how you want to repay them?"

• Ad Hominem

• Hasty Generalization

• Either/Or

• Sentimental Appeal