by Noah Howard | Apr 28, 2017 | Uncategorized
You’re feeling great. You’re feeling ecstatic. You’re feeling like you’re going to win. You responded to every single critique, turned every DA, and defended every advocate. Over 15 of your friends watched the round, and every single one of them said you were...
by Joshua Anumolu | Feb 24, 2017 | Uncategorized
18 Rules of Disinformation We’ve already examined Informal Fallacies, Formal Fallacies, and how to respond to them. Next, I am going to examine 18 rules of disinformation, taken from Twenty-Five Ways To Suppress Truth: The Rules of Disinformation by H. Michael...
by Harrison Durland | Feb 10, 2017 | Uncategorized
Fallacies in general, are confusing. And if the subject weren’t complicated enough already, some may feel that logicians decided to even further complicate it by distinguishing between formal and informal fallacies. By the end of this article, I hope to explain that...
by Harrison Durland | Jan 13, 2017 | Uncategorized
“Of course we know we shouldn’t touch those vines, Mr. Smith; every village child is told the story of the evil spirits that are forced to live in them, and how touching them allows the evil spirits to escape into your skin.” “Evil spirits? No, you’re confused:...
by Noah Amedick | Jan 6, 2017 | Uncategorized
“With few and isolated exceptions, the rehabilitative efforts that have been reported so far have had no appreciable effect on recidivism.” (GASP!) If those words are true, the negative speaker of every NCFCA LD round this year could disprove every affirmative...
by Noah Howard | Sep 22, 2016 | Uncategorized
This post is part 2 of 2 in a series of posts regarding the goals and incentives of the PRC. Last week we took a look at the PRC’s economic and military goals, (see that post here if you missed it), and this week we’re going to be examining its environmental and...
