July 15, 2023 (San Diego) – Whenever a major political event occurs, misinformation becomes rampant. With the upcoming presidential nominee election, false information can be spread to influence ...

For the most part, criticisms of Donald Trump focus on issues of politics, law, and integrity. Nonetheless, regarding an American president now endowed with near-total decisional authority over ...

“Trump Derangement Syndrome” has become one of the most effective political conversation-stoppers of the modern era. Any criticism of Donald Trump, whether grounded in data, policy analysis, or lived ...

The term "Trump Derangement Syndrome" is often used by supporters of President Donald Trump to discredit virtually any criticism of him. It is a convenient slur because it allows someone to sidestep ...

So there’s a scene in one of the old ”Star Trek” movies in which James Kirk is trying to persuade the bad guy to beam Spock onto his ship. When the bad guy refuses, Kirk asks why.” Because you wish it ...

Logical fallacies are flaws in reasoning. They are often called informal fallacies. It's becoming more common for people to call out these fallacies by name. You often hear accusations of people ...

Abstract: NLP research on logical reasoning regains momentum with the recent releases of a handful of datasets, notably LogiQA and Reclor. Logical reasoning is exploited in many probing tasks over ...

When engineers build AI language models like GPT-5 from training data, at least two major processing features emerge: memorization (reciting exact text they’ve seen before, like famous quotes or ...

ST. LOUIS COUNTY, Mo. — The St. Louis County health director is speaking out after receiving a vote of no confidence from the county council. The vote of no confidence passed by a vote of 6 to 1. “A ...

In this blog, I introduce a fallacy to the list of “Cardinal Fallacies” in Logic-Based Therapy. I call this fallacy the Fact-Loading Fallacy because it involves embedding a value judgment (often ...