Re: (Tears) Fads and Fallacies by Martin Gardner

On Sun, 28 Apr 2024 14:10:39 -0600, John Savard
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On 28 Apr 2024 17:29:06 GMT, ted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan
<tednolan>) wrote:
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Is GS a fallacy?  Certainly it seems to have been a fad, but also to still
be around in a less high-profile manner and accepted as providing some
useful insights.

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Among the fallacies examined in Gardner's book is _chiropractic_. As
he notes, though, lots of chiropractors do useful things that help
patients, but when that discipline originated, it included notions
like curing, say, tuberculosis by addressing subluxations of the
vertebrae.

Sounds like an illustration of the statement "if all you have is a
hammer, everything looks like a nail".
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Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"