075 - Special Pleading / Moving the Goalposts

You Are Not So Smart

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🗓️ 5 May 2016

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Sometimes you apply a double standard to the thin…

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1:10.0	Welcome to the You Are Not So Smart Podcast.
1:15.0	Episode 75. This is the seventh episode in a series of episodes, a season of episodes all about
1:40.3	logical fallacies. If you haven't heard the other episodes, we covered what
1:57.8	logical fallacies are and how they work and then we talked about the
2:01.6	fallacy, the no-true Scotsman fallacy fallacy the Texas sharpshooter fallacy the black and white fallacy the strawman fallacy and begging the question.
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