Problem
Identifying Logical Fallacies
Determine which logical fallacy best describes the statements below.
A. According to the actor George Clooney, who plays pediatric surgeon Doug Ross on the popular TV show E.R., the new breakthroughs in gene therapy offer very exciting possibilities for treating congenital diseased in children.
B. What the Democrats want is the raise taxes on everyone's income to bail out people who can't be bothered to get a job.
C. Pollution is slowly killing our planet, and unless you want to watch your grandchildren drown in melting ice-caps or die slowly of diseases caused by a thinning ozone layer, you had better start thinking about how to prevent it.
D. The movie is dull because it's got nothing interesting in it.
E. Don't listen to the doctor's arguments against smoking-they're worthless, because what he doesn't tell you is that he himself is a smoker!
F. My son says I should let him go to the concert on Friday night. But if I start letting him go to concerts and staying out late, he'll start to cut school in the morning; next thing you know, he'll be a dropout, pushed into hanging with the wrong crowd, probably taking drugs with the rest of his buddies. I don't think a concert is worth throwing the rest of his future away.
G. All patriotic Americans will put a flag in their window.