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2004 Swift Boat Vets – Christmas in Cambodia?

June 25, 2012 No Comments

One of the famed Swift Boat ads from the 2004 presidential campaign, raising questions about Kerry's biography.

2004 Bush Ad – 527 Swift Boat Vets: Never Forget

May 3, 2011 No Comments

From the 2004 Presidential Campaign: the 527 ‘Swift Boat Veterans for Truth’ ran this ad questioning Kerry.

2004 Bush Ad – 527 Swift Boat Vets: Friends

May 3, 2011 No Comments

From the 2004 Presidential Campaign: the 527 ‘Swift Boat Veterans for Truth’ ran this ad questioning Kerry.

2004 Kerry Ad – ‘Underfire’

April 28, 2011 No Comments

From the 2004 Presidential Campaign of John Kerry: 'Agenda'. Released July 23, 2004.

2004 Bush Ad – 527 Swift Boat Vets: Why?

April 13, 2011 No Comments

From the 2004 Presidential Campaign: the 527 ‘Swift Boat Veterans for Truth’ ran this ad questioning Kerry.

2004 Bush Ad – Swift Boat Vets: Any Questions

April 7, 2011 No Comments

From the 2004 Presidential Campaign: the 527 'Swift Boat Veterans for Truth' ran this ad questioning Kerry's public biography about his war record

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Fake Expert

Fake Expert: A fallacious appeal to authority in which the 'expert' is not an expert at all.

Expert in the wrong domain

Expert in the wrong domain: a fallacious version of an appeal to authority - i.e. appealing to a doctor...

Slippery Slope

Slippery slope: If we take one step, we’ll have to take all the rest of them because there’s no...

Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc

Post hoc ergo propter hoc: “After this, therefore because of this”, a fallacy in reasoning about causes. (I took...

Poisoning The Well

Poisoning the well: Telling the audience what to think of a speaker when you’re introducing the speaker (My next...

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As a starting point, Critical thinking should be infused into the pedagogy of classes of many types, as students learning to probe, to evaluate evidence, to write papers with well-structured arguments, and to analyze the arguments presented to them in other texts. --Martha Nussbaum, Not For Profit, p. 55