Straw Man Arguments Explained

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[@hayleyhale3182]

Scott, you are the MAN!! Please keep helping people identify manipulative behavior!! You are absolutely brilliant and a wonderful teacher! If this world wasn’t so messed up I’d tell you to run for president!

[@tj6959]

This is awesome!

[@KathySierraVideo]

Big red flag for me is any time someone says, “So what they’re saying is…” because 90% of the time it’s a straw man. Jumps to 100% if they add the word “basically..,” as in, “so basically, you’re saying…”. So frustrating because people who use these fallacies are also skilled at “moving the goal posts”, so even if you stamp out one straw man (with receipts, etc.), a different one pops up and it’s Fallacy Whack-a-Mole.

[@MultiFreak107]

I just read through some comments on "What will happen with Andrew Huberman, now?". It's so sad. While you mostly give a personal account on your own experience and relate that to the allegations of the NYT, all the fanboys argue on the point, that his science is not wrong.
Keep up the good work!

[@sgcarney]

Right. It’s all argumentum ad populum in the comment section.

[@endgamefond]

I like when you share more educational videos. keep it up

[@beachnap]

Scott, I am really enjoying your content, keep it up! Side note, I found your doppelgänger in another youtuber @Nick_Lewis. I don't know if interior design and investigative journalism share much else in common in terms of the content but in either case, a keen eye is always welcome.

[@sgcarney]

I got a go check them out!

[@asan1050]

Thanks for posting this video

[@sgcarney]

It's my pleasure

[@Focusing-Reise]

In my personal experience, most persons who acted this way with me didn't do it consciously. Like some weeks ago I was talking about a method and wondered how to person who invented it - who is living in Israel - is doing right now with everything that's going on there. And the person I was talking to reacted like: 'What about the Palestinian people? Don't you care about them at all?'
And first I was like 'Wait.. what?' And then I remembered she had a very hard time as kid, being mistreated by those who should care for her. She's still processing and says about herself that she has kind of a 'Robin Hood complex', always being vigorously on the side of the weaker ones. So the word 'Isreal' was enough to switch her trigger.
Another example might be when people seeing somebody wearing a mask suddenly feel aggressive because they are reminded of the time when their parent was in hospital and the couldn't see them because of the covid regulation and all the unprocessed pain and suffering comes up. They don't anything about the person wearing the mask, still there's this narrative in their head.
So yes, repeating the facts calmly and clearly surely is a good way to go. And in some cases, it might be a good idea to let it go for the moment and connect with what's going on for the other person. Maybe there's a story about abortion or immigrant regulation they need to tell before they have the capacity to hear what I wanted to say initially.

[@vvsvitalia]

I wonder what you made of Hubermans response to the NY magazine on jockos podcast . Completely denied everything

[@sgcarney]

I need to watch it. Does jocko post transcripts?

[@dominiquedoeslife]

More logical fallacies! Nice!