| Name | Description | Example |
| Anchoring | Depending too heavily on an initial piece of information when making subsequent judgments. | “2.2 million people might have died from COVID-19 so keeping it down to only 130,000 deaths is a good job.” |
Learn more about the fallacies in this graphics category in the blog post A history of FLICC: the 5 techniques of science denial
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