The base rate fallacy is a silent killer of great startups. Learn how this common statistical trap leads to bad hires, failed ...

AI-generated imagery of people doing things they haven’t done in real life is increasingly being deployed in malicious ways.

The idea that defense spending should somehow be a consistent percentage of GDP is as fallacious as it is wasteful. Consider a recent Washington Post editorial. It oddly asserted that “Throughout the ...

This might be one of the most unpopular articles of all time, but as I sit here wanting to express from my heart, my private burdens are being exposed. I care about you (and me), it’s the only reason ...

Logical fallacies are flaws in reasoning. They are often called informal fallacies. It's becoming more common for people to call out these fallacies by name. You often hear accusations of people ...

Recent reports suggest that NASA is looking to accelerate its lunar landing timeline — partly to ensure that America returns to the moon before China does. The echoes of the 1960s Space Race are ...

This letter is a response to an Oak Ridger guest column titled, “Pronatalist movement is based on a fantasy.” Regrettably, the referenced column contains serious logic fallacies. These fallacies begin ...

One of the special features of logic-based therapy (LBT), in contrast to other forms of cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT), is LBT’s matching of “guiding virtues” to “cardinal fallacies.” According to ...

“Any suggestion that USPTO patent examination quality is a controlling factor in the high rate of patent invalidation in the district courts and at the PTAB is a fallacy that should be rejected and ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about relationships, personality, and everyday psychology. Narcissists rely on these five ‘logical fallacies’ like a ...