Who said this statement is false

She misused what she claimed was the prophetic gift she had. Votes: 3. The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. The elite media has been caught in so many lies because of false statements that its whole reputation has eroded, their circulation is down, and their profits are down Votes: 3.

The elite media has been caught in so many lies because of false statements that its whole reputation has eroded, their circulation is down, and their profits are down.

I did though at least expect him to correct the false statements he made when he was trying to protect the Presidency.

Instead, he talked about it as though I had laid it all out there for the taking. I was the buffet and he just couldn't resist the dessert. The only ethical principle which has made science possible is that the truth shall be told all the time. If we do not penalize false statements made in error, we open up the way for false statements by intention. And a false statement of fact, made deliberately, is the most serious crime a scientist can commit.

A blunt statement can be as false as any other. Votes: 1. When somebody says that all statements are false, the obvious problem is that as an assertion it's self-defeating. One comes to believe whatever one repeats to oneself sufficiently often, whether the statement be true of false. Distinct from politicians are "political operatives. The first group functions to push a specific agenda for political purposes and falls into a more traditional definition of a political operative.

The second category of political operatives includes groups of people pushing a specific agenda who are not officially linked to the state or a specific political party, such as anti-vaccine protesters. Yes, it is a risk -- especially during a health crisis -- to assume that the information offered by your friends and family is always accurate. Again, it is important to always try to ascertain the source. Also, it's OK to "compassionately engage" your friends and family members who you know are sharing false information, Donovan said.

In terms of celebrities, just because they are famous does not mean they are putting out accurate information.

Be wary. Be skeptical. Your favorite actor or sports star is not the place you should be getting the latest updates on the pandemic. Celebrities, because they are newsworthy and have fans, become the perfect amplifier for misinformation," Donovan said.

Conversely, celebrities can use their social media reach to spread accurate information, as exemplified recently when certain celebrities, including Julia Roberts and Millie Bobby Brown, handed their accounts over to coronavirus experts such as Dr. This category is pretty easy. Certain sites or accounts intentionally produce information intended to entertain, not inform. The bottom line here is, if anyone in our government was going to make the above disinformation statement and specifically in , all available evidence points to no better person who would have likely said it than Casey.

Finally on an aside, there seems to be this mission lately to memory hole quotes or muddy the water about who said what and change history. Even so, people still went into the Quora thread afterwards to claim — with absolutely no evidence whatsoever as they were not personally there — the quote is false. So, in a bitter twist of the saddest irony possible, it would seem the contents of the quote itself are also true. Truthstream Media Follow.

Researchers by day, filmmakers by night. Currently working on our 2nd feature film. This one's a mystery. A study by Ruhr University Bochum suggests that olfactory rhetoric does not arise from a simple, automatic physiological reaction to an actual odor, but in fact, strongly depends on one's predetermined reaction or prejudices toward another, and one's olfactory center "is activated even before we perceive an odour.

Also applies to supposedly "discovering" and sensationally reporting some potentially damning information or evidence and then, after the damage has been done or the decision has been made, quietly declaring, "Oops, I guess that really wasn't that significant after all. Ignore what I said. Sorry 'bout that! Othering also Otherizing, "They're Not Like Us," Stereotyping, Xenophobia, Racism, Prejudice : A badly corrupted, discriminatory argument from ethos where facts, arguments, experiences or objections are arbitrarily disregarded, ignored or put down without serious consideration because those involved "are not like us," or "don't think like us.

If it happened here I'd call it brutal exploitation and daylight robbery but south of the border, down Mexico way the economy is different and they're not like us. They don't think about life and death the same way we do. A variation on this fallacy is the "Speakee" Fallacy "You speakee da English? Overexplanation: A fallacy of logos stemming from the real paradox that beyond a certain point, more explanation, instructions, data, discussion, evidence or proof inevitably results in less, not more, understanding.

Contemporary urban mythology holds that this fallacy is typically male " Mansplaining " , while barely half a century ago the prevailing myth was that it was men who were naturally monosyllabic, grunting or non-verbal while women would typically overexplain e. Overgeneralization also Hasty Generalization; Totus pro Partes Fallacy ; the Merological Fallacy : A fallacy of logos where a broad generalization that is agreed to be true is offered as overriding all particular cases, particularly special cases requiring immediate attention.

Or, attempting to refute "Black Lives Matter" by replying, "All Lives Matter," the latter undeniably true but still a fallacious overgeneralization in that specific and urgent context. Overgeneralization may also include the the Pars pro Toto Fallacy , the stupid but common fallacy of incorrectly applying one or two true examples to all cases.

Famously, the case of one Willie Horton was successfully used in this manner in the American presidential election to smear African Americans, Liberals, and by extension, Democratic presidential candidate Michael Dukakis. See also the fallacy of "Zero Tolerance" below. The Paralysis of Analysis also, Procrastination; the Nirvana Fallacy : A postmodern fallacy that since all data is never in, any conclusion is always provisional, no legitimate decision can ever be made and any action should always be delayed until forced by circumstances.

See also the "Law of Unintended Consequences. Scholar Jackson Katz notes : "We talk about how many women were raped last year, not about how many men raped women. We talk about how many girls in a school district were harassed last year, not about how many boys harassed girls. We talk about how many teenage girls in the state of Vermont got pregnant last year, rather than how many men and boys impregnated teenage girls. So you can see how the use of the passive voice has a political effect. Even the term 'Violence against women' is problematic.

It's a passive construction; there's no active agent in the sentence. It's a bad thing that happens to women, but when you look at the term 'violence against women' nobody is doing it to them, it just happens to them Men aren't even a part of it. An obverse of the Passive Voice Fallacy is the Be-verb Fallacy , a cultish linguistic theory and the bane of many a first-year composition student's life, alleging that an extraordinary degree of "clarity," "sanity," or textual "liveliness" can be reached by strictly eliminating all passive verb forms and all forms of the verb "to be" from English-language writing.

This odd but unproven contention, dating back to Alfred Korzybski's "General Semantics" self-improvement movement of the 's and '30's via S. Hayakawa, blithely ignores the fact that although numerous major world languages lack a ubiquitous "be-verb," e. Paternalism: A serious fallacy of ethos, arbitrarily tut-tutting, dismissing or ignoring another's arguments or concerns as "childish" or "immature;" taking a condescending attitude of superiority toward opposing standpoints or toward opponents themselves.

Try approaching the issue like an adult for a change," "I don't argue with children ," or "Somebody has to be the grownup in the room, and it might as well be me. Here's why you're wrong It had to happen! It's my usual rotten luck that the biggest blizzard of the year had to occur just on the day of our winter festival. If it wasn't for ME being involved I'm sure the blizzard wouldn't have happened! Hitler evidently believed that simply because he was Hitler every bullet would miss him and no explosive could touch him.

Just boil it down to the Simple Truth," or "I don't want your damned philosophy lesson! Just tell me the Plain Truth about why this is happening. See also, The Snow Job, and Overexplanation.

The opposite of this is the postmodern fallacy of Ineffability or Complexity also, Truthiness; Post-Truth , , arbitrarily declaring that today's world is so complex that there is no truth, or that Truth capital-T , if indeed such a thing exists, is unknowable except perhaps by God or the Messiah and is thus forever inaccessible and irrelevant to us mere mortals, making any cogent argument from logos impossible.

See also the Big Lie, and Paralysis of Analysis. Plausible Deniability: A vicious fallacy of ethos under which someone in power forces those under his or her control to do some questionable or evil act and to then falsely assume or conceal responsibility for that act in order to protect the ethos of the one in command.

Noted rhetorician Kenneth Burke falls into this last, behaviorist fallacy in his otherwise brilliant Language as Symbolic Action , in his discussion of a bird trapped in a lecture room. Political Correctness "PC" : A postmodern fallacy, a counterpart of the "Name Calling" fallacy, supposing that the nature of a thing or situation can be changed by simply changing its name.

Instead of being 'victims,' we are proud to be 'survivors. Also applies to other forms of political " Language Control," e. Occasionally the fallacy of "Political Correctness" is falsely confused with simple courtesy, e. An opposite of this fallacy is the fallacy of Venting, below. This fallacy practically if not theoretically denies both the reality of difference and the human capacity to chose radical evil.

The Projection bias fallacy is 'They're just people like me, therefore they must be motivated by the same things that motivate me. This is the opposite of the Othering fallacy. Note: The Pollyanna Principle fallacy should not be confused with a psychological principle of the same name which observes that positive memories are usually retained more strongly than negative ones. The Positive Thinking Fallacy: An immensely popular but deluded modern fallacy of logos, that because we are "thinking positively" that in itself somehow biases external, objective reality in our favor even before we lift a finger to act.

In the latter case rational discussion, argument or refutation is most often futile. See also, Deliberate Ignorance. The Post Hoc Argument : also, "Post Hoc Propter Hoc;" "Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc;" "Too much of a coincidence," the "Clustering Illusion" : The classic paranoiac fallacy of attributing an imaginary causality to random coincidences, concluding that just because something happens close to, at the same time as, or just after something else, the first thing is caused by the second.

The most benign nonviolent form of this fallacy is found in passive-aggressive tactics such as slowdowns, boycotts, lockouts, sitdowns and strikes. See also "No Discussion" and "Nonrecognition. The modernist fallacy of falsely and inappropriately applying the norms and requirements of standardized manufacturing. This fallacy often seems to stem from the pathological need of someone in power to place in "order" their disturbingly free, messy and disordered universe by restricting others' freedom and insisting on rigid standardization, alphabetization, discipline, uniformity and "objective" assessment of everyone under their power.

This fallacy partially explains why marching in straight lines, mass calisthenics, goose-stepping, drum-and-bugle or flag corps, standing at attention, saluting, uniforms, and standardized categorization are so typical of fascism, tyrannical regimes, and of tyrants petty and grand everywhere. Thanks to author Eimar O'Duffy for identifying this fallacy!

Proper names, especially if they are from the same culture or language group as the audience, can have near-mystical persuasive power. In some cases, those who use this fallacy in its contemporary form will defend it as an attempt to "personalize" an otherwise anonymous recent mass tragedy. This fallacy was virtually unknown in secular American affairs before about years ago, when the custom emerged of listing of the names of local World War I casualties on community monuments around the country.

The Red Herring also, Distraction : An irrelevant argument, attempting to mislead and distract an audience by bringing up an unrelated but emotionally loaded issue.

Just look at what happened last week in [name the place]. Vote for me and I'll fight those terrorists anywhere in the world! Whether the Reductio ad Hitlerum can be considered an actual fallacy or not seems to fundamentally depend on one's personal view of Hitler and the gravity of his crimes. Reductionism : also, Oversimplifying, Sloganeering : The fallacy of deceiving an audience by giving simple answers or bumper-sticker slogans in response to complex questions, especially when appealing to less educated or unsophisticated audiences.

He'll bring back jobs! Reifying also, Mistaking the Map for the Territory : The ancient fallacy of treating imaginary intellectual categories, schemata or names as actual, material "things. Now they want us to believe that ordinary water is nothing but H 2 O. Are you going to believe them?

The government is frantically trying to suppress the truth that our public drinking-water supply actually has nitrogen in it and causes congenital vampirism! And what about Area 51? Don't you care? Or are you just a kiss-up for the corrupt scientific establishment? The "Save the Children" Fallacy also, Humanitarian Crisis : A cruel and cynical contemporary media-driven fallacy of pathos, an instance of the fallacious Appeal to Pity, attracting public support for intervention in somebody else's crisis in a distant country by repeatedly showing in gross detail the extreme real suffering of the innocent, defenseless little children occasionally extended even to their pets!

Scapegoating also, Blamecasting : The ancient fallacy that whenever something goes wrong there's always someone other than oneself to blame. Although sometimes this fallacy is a practical denial of randomness or chance itself, today it is more often a mere insurance-driven business decision "I don't care if it was an accident! Somebody with deep pockets is gonna pay for this! The term "Scapegoating" is also used to refer to the tactic of casting collective blame on marginalized or scorned "Others," e.

Then you snitched on me to the cops and let them collect a rape kit on you, and now I'm going to prison and every bit of it is your fault! Scare Tactics also Appeal to Fear; Paranoia; the Bogeyman Fallacy; Shock Doctrine [ShockDoc]; Rally 'Round the Flag; Rally 'Round the President : A variety of Playing on Emotions, a corrupted argument from pathos, taking advantage of a emergent or deliberately-created crisis and its associated public shock, panic and chaos in order to impose an argument, action or solution that would be clearly unacceptable if carefully considered.

In this moment of crisis we can't afford the luxury of criticizing or trying to second-guess my decisions when our very lives and freedom are in peril! Instead, we need to be united as one! An associated fallacy is that of Evening up the Score also, Getting Even , exacting tit-for-tat vengeance as though life were some sort of "point-score" sports contest.

Counter-arguments to the "Scoring" fallacy usually fall on deaf ears, since the one and only purpose for playing a game is to "score," isn't it? The opposite of this fallacy is that of "Venting. I dare you to prove it isn't so! You can't! You admit it! That means what I say has to be true.

Most probably, you're one of them, since you seem to be so soft on space-aliens! I rest my case. The Shopping Hungry Fallacy : A fallacy of pathos, a variety of Playing on Emotions and sometimes Scare Tactics, making stupid but important decisions or being prompted, manipulated or forced to "freely" take public or private decisions that may be later regretted but are difficult to reverse "in the heat of the moment" when under the influence of strong emotion hunger, fear, lust, anger, sadness, regret, fatigue, even joy, love or happiness.

Miller Jr. This fallacy is masterfully portrayed in the person of the title character in the Hollywood movie, "Forrest Gump. President Barrack Obama noted to the contrary , "In politics and in life, ignorance is not a virtue. It's not cool to not know what you're talking about. That's not real or telling it like it is. That's not challenging political correctness. That's just not knowing what you're talking about. Please explain to the jury in simple terms what exactly you did to get convicted of that crime.

The Slippery Slope also, the Domino Theory : The common fallacy that "one thing inevitably leads to another. Sunday worship service right here in Garfield, Kansas! This is a corrupted argument from logos.

See also, "Lying with Statistics. The Soldiers' Honor Fallacy : The ancient fallacy that all who wore a uniform, fought hard and followed orders are worthy of some special honor or glory or are even "heroes," whether they fought for freedom or fought to defend slavery, marched under Grant or Lee, Hitler, Stalin, Eisenhower or McArthur, fought to defend their homes, fought for oil or to spread empire, or even fought against and killed U.

A corrupt argument from ethos that of a soldier , closely related to the "Finish the Job" fallacy "Sure, he died for a lie, but he deserves honor because he followed orders and did his job faithfully to the end! See also "Heroes All. See also "Blind Loyalty.