Fallacy icon - Quote mining

Name Description Example
Quote mining Taking a person’s words out-of-context in order to misrepresent their position. “Mike’s trick… to hide the decline.”

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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