"French pharmaceutical company HRA Pharma has just released a warning stating that the morning-after pill 'Norlevo' is completely ineffective for women weighing over 176 pounds. The pill even begins to lose effectiveness for women weighing 165."
The effort at humor in the headline deploys a logical fallacy that has a name. Can you name it?
It's the Fallacy of Accent. The fallaCEE of acksSAHN.
(To learn the names of 76 fallacies, get "76 Fallacies," which only costs 99¢ in Kindle. (Also in paperback.)
No comments:
Post a Comment