“HOW many lawyer jokes are there? Only three: The rest are true stories,” reads one of the countless lawyer one-liners circulating in cyberspace. Some are witty, some aren’t, but indeed most of the ...

Here at Snopes, we encounter our fair share of logical fallacies, or errors in reasoning, that tend to be more persuasive than they ought to be, and are based on poor or faulty logic. In previous ...

We are likely to be trapped in the fallacy of hasty generalization in our daily lives, sometimes causing catastrophes. If this fallacy is aggravated by vicious terrorists or religious extremists, it ...