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Date: December 05, 2023 12:03AM
...which made me think of this thread::
"The Appeal to Nature (also, Biologizing; The Green Fallacy): The contemporary romantic fallacy of ethos (that of "Mother Nature") that if something is "natural" it has to be good, healthy and beneficial. E.g., "Our premium herb tea is lovingly brewed from the finest freshly-picked and delicately dried natural T. Radicans leaves. Those who dismiss it as mere 'Poison Ivy' don't understand that it's 100% organic, with no additives, GMO's or artificial ingredients It's time to Go Green and lay back in Mother's arms." One who employs or falls for this fallacy forgets the old truism that left to itself, nature is indeed "red in tooth and claw."
Indulge me for hijacking this thread, but here's why I was on that site (link, below):
Is there a scientific term, or procedure, or apt "logical fallacy" term for when you have a thesis that is, based on simple observation and wide consensus, plainly false,--but you decide to test it anyway, just to prove, once and for all, that it's false?
Crude example. "A" claims, in all sincerity, that the world is flat. "B" arranges for "A" passage on Space-X to prove that the world is a globe. Any help?
https://utminers.utep.edu/omwilliamson/engl1311/fallacies.htm