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"This is the sunk cost fallacy," he said, adding that "it keeps the addictive behaviour loop".

From Barron's ● May 31, 2026

Stan Veuger, an economist at the conservative American Enterprise Institute, said the administration’s position relies on what’s known as the lump-of-labor fallacy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 22, 2026

"I think the thing young founders get wrong is they view hours worked in and of itself as necessary and sufficient to think of themselves as productive. And that's where the fallacy lies", he explains.

From BBC ● Feb. 8, 2026

“A major fallacy is assuming that policies that work in one country will automatically work in another,” Josh Michaud, the associate director of global health and public health policy at KFF, told Salon.

From Salon ● Jan. 11, 2026

Had it not been exposed long ago as a fallacy?

From "1984" by George Orwell

I place that term in quotation marks since, as many people have said and continue to say, the version of “debate” that Kirk popularized is a wrestling match in a mud pit of logical fallacies.

From Salon ● Oct. 22, 2025

Even neomercantilists have a little point buried in a heap of fallacies.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2025

“One of the fallacies is that this is only targeting Latinos. If you look at the Vietnamese, Cambodian, Hmong, Chinese, even Japanese communities, they’re being picked up right in court.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2025

So placing that art outside time, or concocting fallacies about its artist’s intentions, has the potential to skew our perception of the art moving forward.

From Slate ● Sep. 1, 2024

“It’s one of the great fallacies, it seems to me,” said Lee, “that time gives much of anything but years and sadness to a man.”

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck