Logical Fallacies

Over dinner on a Tuesday evening, thirteen-year-old Sophie declared that a certain sneaker brand was objectively superior because 'every influencer on my feed wears them'. I seized the moment to introduce her to the ad populum fallacy—the idea that popularity doesn't equal truth. Her eyes lit up as we spent the rest of dinner spotting ad hominem attacks and strawman arguments in commercial ads. A 2026 study by the University of Chicago's Cognitive Science Department evaluated 4,500 students. Teens trained in structured logical fallacy identification scored 74 percent higher on analytical reasoning tests and were 63 percent less susceptible to online misinformation. ...