Eugene Volokh | 6.16.2022 8:01 AM This heuristic seems similar to the ad hominem fallacy, in which a speaker asks listeners to reject certain arguments because the arguments are promoted by a group ...
Reacting to the Possibility of Slippage—The Slippery Slope Inefficiency and the Ad Hominem Heuristic
[For the last month, I've been serializing my 2003 Harvard Law Review article, The Mechanisms of the Slippery Slope, and I'm finishing it up this week.] This slippery slope inefficiency might ...
The MTA's actions are just another perilous step down the slope to banning any speech that tends toward controversy. Under the MTA’s new policies, ads like this Pro-Palestine message, which ran at the ...
"Puffery is the last refuge of scoundrels," said Edward Glynn, Jr., a partner at the Washington, D.C. law firm Venable, LLC. That sentiment, perhaps itself a bit of puffery, set the tone at Monday's ...
That phrase is a "tried-and-true debate stopper," ethicist Jack Marshall writes, "because of its ability to inhibit rational thought." It's no wonder, then, that professional activists and government ...
Marketers are shifting their dollars from banner ads to native ads, but many in-content ads now border on deception. It is well-known that native ads net higher engagement than banner ads because they ...
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