fallacy

Anything less would be a fallacy, a dream of a world that we don’t, and might never, live in.

From Salon ● Oct. 2, 2026

Our brains get mired in the throes of the fallacy when we feel we can’t do what we really want, simply because we’ve already invested so much in what we currently have.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026

Harvard Law’s Laurence Tribe traces the anomaly to a technical error: “a profound fallacy about spectrum scarcity.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026

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

From Barron's ● May 31, 2026

To appreciate the fallacy, consider a visitor from Outer Space who dropped in on Earth in the year 3000 B.C.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

Following along as he picks data fallacies apart is a lot of fun, and I can’t wait to read the whole book.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026

“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

Ultimately, reframing the issue and zooming out can help counter the emotionally charged nature of these types of decisions that often lead to sunk cost fallacies.

From Salon ● Dec. 15, 2024

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 can conceal a dozen fallacies at once.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin