If you are an Expert, professional, bureaucrat, teacher, professor, Democrat or Republican, liberal, progressive or conservative, consider yourself in any way in the educated classes, the odds are high that Everything you Believe is wrong.
Here are just a few of our age\'s favorite fallacies: Controversial Fallacy, Non-Fallacy Fallacy, Appeal to Non-Authority, So Yer\'s Old Man, Bluff & Bluster Fallacy, You Bigot Fallacy, Hate Speech Fallacy, Bureaucrat Fallacy, One True Spart.
We step through each, showing how it is false.
I have evocative and memorable nicknames, at least for speakers of English, of the most popular and important fallacies of our day.
Some mental misconstructions are permanent fixtures.
Fallacies therefore have tremendous inertia.
The balance of truth versus error shifts in time, yet the current age is more eager than average to ferret away any shiny object it finds and call it precious.
Every age has its own favorite forays into fiction, driven by fashion, fad, and fantasy, all of which are enforced by the culture\'s self-appointed Watchers.
Some mistakes are more common than others.
There is ample reason to Believe the human race is congenitally insane.
History supports this contention.
Nobody knows the complete list of ways thought can go wrong, and it has even been surmised such a list is endless.
Every bad or invalid or unsound argument contains a fallacy or mistake in thinking.
It will be proved chapter by chapter.
This is no idle claim.
The majority, and that means likely you, are Wrong about all of them.
These are only some of the ideas and arguments explored in this book.
Here is a small sample of things that majority of educated Believe are false, but which are instead true: Science cannot answer every question put to it
It is not always right to correct a wrong
There is no wisdom in crowds
A consensus among elite academics does not prove the belief of the elite academics is true
That you are offended is irrelevant to whether a proposition is true or false
Defining yourself as your sexual desire is nonsensical
Voting does not make the majority position right and the minority position wrong
Voting is a leading cause of discord
Democracy is rarely to be desired
You cannot choose to Believe you do not have free will
God exists.
If you are in the majority, then a great deal of what you hold true about the world and of life is false.
Only the most important things.
Not simple things.
Not everything.
If you are an Expert, professional, bureaucrat, teacher, professor, Democrat or Republican, liberal, progressive or conservative, consider yourself in any way in the educated classes, the odds are high that Everything you Believe is wrong
