Latest MMR 'dispute' is a straw man

Response from a straw man.

One problem with ivory towers (often sited on Olympian heights) is that the view from them is often grossly distorted and inaccurate. The fog and miasma below often makes viewing the landscape difficult to impossible. I I personally have great difficulty in recognizing the terrain from which Alan A. Stone, MD draws his generalizations about expert testimony. First, although Stone does make one ...

The straw man fallacy

In this paper, an analysis is given of the straw man fallacy as a misrepresentation of someone's commitments in order to refute that person's argument. With this analysis a distinction can be made between straw man and other closely related fallacies such as ad hominem, secundum quid and ad verecundiam. When alleged cases of the straw man fallacy are evaluated, the speaker's commitment should b...

Two Forms of the Straw Man

The authors identify and offer an analysis of a new form of the Straw Man fallacy, and then explore the implications of the prevalence of this fallacy for contemporary political discourse.

Rape and the Straw Man: A Response to Lindsay Kelland.

Lindsay Kelland has taken issue with a claim I made in a book titled The Second Sexism: Discrimination Against Men and Boys. In response to this claim, she has argued that when a woman is raped, it matters that her rapist is a male because "her situation as a woman under patriarchy is partly constitutive of the harm that she suffers" in being raped. In my response to her article, I show that sh...

Economic Man —or Straw Man? A Commentary on Henrich et al