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Cryptocurrencies and Banks: the construction of a fallacy

2 Nov 2025 5 minute read 4 comments SirGerardThe1st

Image by martinahavlikova84 from Pixabay Mass media, social networks, and mass advertising bombard us with fallacies every morning. Sometimes, the fallacy is so blatant that we're embarrassed to see or hear it. When a minister says that last month's...

Cryptocurrencies and Banks: the construction of a fallacy

A Mini Rant on the Logical Fallacy of Appealing to Nature (Asserting that "Natural" is Always "Good")

13 Aug 2021 1 minute read 2 comments Great White Snark

Good for you, man. Good for you! Good for you! — J-Man (Christopher Walken); Envy (2004) A few days ago, while in the grip of influenza, I was told the following (by someone younger than me and with less life experience, never mind a tendency not t...