Episode 0017: Ad hominem (original episode)
Hunting Humbug 101
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This is an original episode on Ad Hominem.
Show notes (stuff we mentioned that you might want to follow up, or not, whatever… totally up to you):
Reading from the book (Ad Hominem)
The master of vitriolic Ad Hominem and Browbeating - Gordon Ramsay - fromKitchen Nightmares (I think...)
Reductio Ad Hitlerum and Goodwin’s Law
An example of likening a contemporary political leader to Hitler from people who’d been to see a talk by Al Gore organised by moveon.org (no points for guessing the leader of who I speak...) . This is obviously a case of cherry picking, but nonetheless…. Here's the youtube clip I used: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FiOpOGJsLhU. (I also slipped in a bit of Monty Python here (Gumbies)
Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and the earwax incident (prior to being elected)
Blackadder Goes Fourth - Captain Cook
The evil brain teaser I mentioned
Direct download: https://archive.org/download/HH101/HH101e0017.mp3
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