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Gun Control & RKBA

friendly_iconoclast

(15,333 posts)

8. Associational fallacy: Don't argue the content, quibble about the author's employer

Reply to Paladin (Reply #6)

Fri Sep 8, 2017, 04:21 PM

Sep 2017

May we likewise reject the work of those associated with the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of
Public Health?

https://www.jhsph.edu/

Or is such scrutiny to be reserved for those you deem not to have the proper antigun stance?

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Just finished reading this book [View all] gejohnston Aug 2017 OP

Started reading "The Second Amendment A Biography" by Michael Waldman underpants Aug 2017 #1

To quote the author: discntnt_irny_srcsm Aug 2017 #2

That would be the ANTONIN SCALIA School of Law at George Mason, correct? Paladin Sep 2017 #4

There's no accounting for taste discntnt_irny_srcsm Sep 2017 #5

Yeah, actually there is. Paladin Sep 2017 #6

Your confederate statue analogy is less than good discntnt_irny_srcsm Sep 2017 #7

Associational fallacy: Don't argue the content, quibble about the author's employer friendly_iconoclast Sep 2017 #8

That poster didn't care enough to stick around and argue the content... friendly_iconoclast Sep 2017 #9

Thanks for the heads-up GE....... pablo_marmol Sep 2017 #3