Sentence examples for fallacious association from inspiring English sources

This, if exists, will underestimate the microbiological contamination rate and will also make a fallacious association between self-reported mobile phone disinfection and mobile phone contamination.

Leaping from an observation of slightly more activity in one area on one side to a conclusion about function of the right brain is guilt by association, a fallacious argument from the part to the whole.

In this case, the opponent produces a detailed and carefully formulated response to a fallacious argument, such as the association of evolutionary theory to Nazism.

Recognize fallacies and determine if the fallacious arguments are relevant for the science content.

Failure to consider these basic aspects of Cd toxicology may lead to fallacious interpretations, such as the one that for more than two decades continues to confound the metabolic associations between U-Cd and LMW proteinuria in the general population with early renal effects of chronic Cd poisoning.

Groarke & Tindale 2012 use traditional fallacies as a basis for the definition of positive argument schemes, by treating ad hominem, guilt by association, appeals to ignorance, two wrongs reasoning, etc. as legitimate schemes of argument — and by treating fallacious instances of them as deviations from an (inherently correct) norm.

There is a tacit but fallacious belief that the discriminatory accuracy of a risk factor is high when it is supported by a 'strong' association (eg, an OR of 4, as in the case of maternal hypertension).

Skeptics argue that the connection of conspiracy theorists and occultists follows from their common fallacious premises.

This is fallacious reasoning.

The metaphor is fallacious.

This is a fallacious argument.