fallacy

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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

But the notion that climbers are merely adrenaline junkies chasing a righteous fix is a fallacy, at least in the case of Everest.

From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer