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If you participate at all in online discussions, particularly on social media, you’ve likely seen someone discuss the idea of the “slippery slope” fallacy. Read Full Article » ...

Ross Douthat had a great blog item the other day, saying that on the question of fertility technology, the slippery slope critics warned about has become a reality. Excerpt: James Watson wasn’t ...

Logicians call the slippery slope a classic logical fallacy. There’s no reason to reject doing one thing, they say, just because it might open the door for some undesirable extreme; permitting “A” ...