From lucky rabbits feet to choosing never to wash socks, sports of all types have individuals engaging in this type of behavior. What is more, we don't have any credible scientific evidence to suggest that ghosts actually exist and are not merely just figments of our imagination.ģ) You often find superstitious types of behavior within sports. P2: There are odd occurrences around the house that I cannot explain.Ĭ: Thus, this odd behavior is a result of grandmother's ghost.Įxplanation: I was clearly falling victim to the false cause fallacy here as I was attributing any odd observations around my house to my grandmother's ghost as she had just passed. The argument that I told myself went something like this: Consequently, I had convinced myself that these odd observations were a result of my grandmother's ghost. These oddities ranged from noises to the movement of objects. In particular, shortly after my great-grandmother passed away, I noticed odd things happening around my house.
In argument form, this is the false cause fallacy.Ģ) When I was a child, as I think is the case for most children and even many adults, I entertained the existence of ghosts.
Hence, this is simply a case of people attributing causation to vaccines when the two events happen to correlate sometimes. P2: Shortly after receiving the vaccine they developed symptoms of autism.Įxplanation: We know through volumes of evidence at this point that vaccines do NOT cause autism. (e.g., P1 is the first premise, P2 is the second premise, etc.)ġ) One of the perennial arguments coming from the anti-vaccine community is in regards to vaccination being linked to autism. The following abbreviations are used in the examples below: