Fallacious Trump9 Feb 2021

Failing Occam's Razor

In the sixty-eighth episode we explore Failing Occam's Razor, starting out with Trump not understanding why he didn't get more mail in ballots and Lou Dobbs wondering why there's no proof of election fraud.

In Mark's British Politics Corner we look at Therese Coffey and Baron McColl claiming obesity, age and population density are the reasons for the UK's atrocious COVID response.

In the Fallacy in the Wild, we check out examples from The Simpsons and Brothers & Sisters.

Jim and Marsh go head to head in Fake News, the game in which Marsh has to guess which of three Trump quotes Jim made up.

Then Jim talks to Marsh from the Merseyside Skeptics about how he got started in skepticism, how to help friends and family in danger of believing things like Q, and the plans for the next QED conference, among other things.

And finally, we round up some of the other crazy Trump stories from the past week.

The full show notes for this episode can be found at http://fallacioustrump.com/ft68

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