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Dave Bock says: Next time you see someone stirring up some controversy, ask yourself what they might be selling. Now this is a pretty sure way to commit The Motive Fallacy (a crime against logic). Just because someone has a motive doesn't mean what they're saying is false. Being aware of motives is helpful but one needs to have other counter-arguments. Questioning motives by itself isn't much of a counter-argument. The first part of the post is dead on though: There have been a lot of blogs lately have been...
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