Logical fallacies at the BBC

[Cuddles]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/6193691.stm

How many of you were expecting me to point out yet another horribly flawed article? I thought this covered everything rather well, let's just hope that someone at the BBC reads it as well.

[Admin]

That's a good article - we could do with more articles like that from the BBC.

It omits the Argument to Ignorance, which I think is extremely common (more than people realise), but that one takes a fair bit of explaining.

Logical fallacies are fairly easy to understand yet they are not taught in schools and very few people are aware of them.

[Araneus]

They also missed the post hoc fallacy, which seems to be responsible for a large amount of stupid legislation (somebody did X and then committed a crime, OMG WE MUST BAN X!!!!).

[Mojo]

That's a good article - we could do with more articles like that from the BBC.

The trouble is that few of the Beeb's journalists (or the people who write their "health" pages) are likely to actually read it.

[hakluyt]

That's a good article - we could do with more articles like that from the BBC.

It omits the Argument to Ignorance, which I think is extremely common (more than people realise), but that one takes a fair bit of explaining.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_ignorance (or appeal to ignorance)