Galileo Fallacy (Redux)

About this episode

The episode revisits the Galileo Fallacy while discussing various political topics and examples of fallacies in media.

In the one-hundred-and-ninety-first episode, we take another look at the Galileo Fallacy, starting with Trump being compared to Galileo and Einstein, Karoline Leavitt defending RFK Jr, and Rick Perry denying climate change. In Mark's British Politics Corner, we look at Farage misquoting Gandhi, Jonathan Dimbleby defending the BBC, and Zia Yusuf attacking Zack Polanski. In the Fallacy in the Wild section, we check out examples from The Newsroom, Smallville, and Monty Python's Flying Circus. Jim and Mark go head to head in Fake News, the game in which Mark has to guess which of three Trump quotes was made up by Jim. Then we talk about FEMA official Gregg Phillips and his claims of teleportation. 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 https://fallacioustrump.com/ft191 You can contact the guys at pod@fallacioustrump.com , on BlueSky @FallaciousTrump , Discord at fallacioustrump.com/discord or facebook at facebook.com/groups/fallacioustrump And you can buy our T-shirts here: https://fallacioustrump.com/tee Subscribe to Fallacious Trump to make sure you never miss a logical fallacy. Rather…

People in this episode

Hosts: Mark, Jim

Topics covered

• Galileo Fallacy
• Trump
• climate change
• British Politics
• Fake News

Keywords

• RFK Jr
• Rick Perry
• Farage
• Gandhi
• BBC
• FEMA
• teleportation

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: British Politics Corner, Fallacy in the Wild, Smallville

Places: US

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