Fallacy icon - Contradictory

Name Description Example
Contradictory Simultaneously believing in ideas that are mutually contradictory. “The temperature record is fabricated by scientists… the temperature record shows cooling.”

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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