If you have the time, I would suggest taking a look at this link:
Logical Fallacies Index
The most commonly used and misused are the strawman fallacy, ad hominem attacks, motivated reasoning, appeal to tradition, hindsight bias, magical thinking, denying the antecedent, occam's razor, selective thinking, non sequitar, pragmatic fallacy, anectdotal evidence (although there is a difference between examples and using an example as "proof"), and proportionality bias.
If you don't want to do that much reading, I would concentrate on ad hominem, strawman, non sequitar, pragmatic fallacy, and proportionality bias.
Even if you don't want to look up any of these, feel free to jump right in. You will probably be harassed a bit by some who disagree with you (as well as some who do it just for fun), so try not to take it too personally.
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"The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently" -Nietzsche
14 Jan 2014, 2:32 pm
