I always like the one that says crackers are better than nothing and nothing
is better than ice cream therefore crackers are better than ice cream.
and what does all this have to do with the rubber chicken story? Nothing as
far as I can tell.
mayf
----- Original Message -----
From: "JOE LANCE" <jolylance@earthlink.net>
To: "DrMayf" <drmayf@teknett.com>; <land-speed@autox.team.net>
Sent: Saturday, October 04, 2003 6:50 PM
Subject: Re: Rubber Chickens....the rest of the story
> My favorite " rubber chicken" scenario is the following:
>
> "It has been conclusively demonstrated by thousands of experiments that
> beating on tom-toms restores the sun after an eclipse"
>
> in other words, "B" followed "A" therefore A caused B , a fallacy known as
> "post hoc ergo propter hoc" often used in statistics, by politicians, and
by
> news media types.
>
> lance
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