My three favorite logical fallacies are:
argumentum ad hominem - 95% or more of the people out in the wild have seen an “ad hominem” used as an attack in a debate.
Most also do not understand the mechanics correctly.
It is only an ad hominem when you call someone a jackass and then equate that the point made is invalid because that person is a jackass.
Example: Sir Isaac Newton was a complete lunatic and a horrid jackass, but that does not invalidate his studies of mathematics.
No true Scotsman - because most use this as a blanket for horrid beliefs and behavior when one cannot justify oneself in face of the facts or weather the reality of statistics, it is excuse making at it's best and most irrational.
Moving The Goalposts - because we all know that is the only way the irrational can actually win a logical, factual, argument based on evidence - to run away.
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