Your logical fallacy is...

I'd like to add notes to each fallacy whereby a real-life news article, video, etc. is identified as an example of that fallacy. Please help me do that!

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1. Appeal to nature

1.1. Making the argument that because something is 'natural' it is therefore valid, justified, inevitable, good, or ideal

2. Begging the question

2.1. A circular argument in which the conclusion is included in the premise

3. Black-or-white

3.1. Where two alternative states are presented as the only possibilities, when in fact more possibilities exist

4. No true Scotsman

4.1. Making what would called an appeal to purity as a way to dismiss relevant criticisms or flaws of an argument

5. Appeal to authority

5.1. Saying that because an authority thinks something, it must therefore be true

6. The gambler's fallacy

6.1. Believing that 'runs' occur to statistically independent phenomena such as roulette wheel spins

7. Strawman

7.1. Misrepresenting someone's argument to make it easier to attack

8. Appeal to emotion

8.1. Manipulating an emotional response in place of a valid or compelling argument

9. Slippery slope

9.1. Answering that if we allow A to happen, then Z will consequently happen, therefore A should not happen

10. Tu quoque

10.1. Avoiding having to engage with criticism by turning it back on the accuser - answering criticism with criticism

11. Special pleading

11.1. Moving the goalposts or making up exceptions when a claim is shown to be false

12. Burden of proof

12.1. Saying that the burden of proof lies not with the person making the claim, but with someone else to disprove

13. Middle ground

13.1. Saying that a compromise, or middle point, between two extremes must be the truth

14. The Texas sharpshooter

14.1. Cherry-picking data clusters to suit an argument, or finding a pattern to fit a presumption

15. Genetic

15.1. Judging something good or bad on the basis of where it comes from, or from whom it comes

16. Composition or division

16.1. Assuming that what's true about one part of something has to be applied to all, or other, parts of it

17. Bandwagon

17.1. Appealing to popularity or the fact that many people do something as an attempted form of validation

18. Anecdotal

18.1. Using personal experience or an isolated example instead of a valid argument, especially to dismiss statistics

19. False cause

19.1. Perceived or real relationship between things means that one is the cause of the other

20. The fallacy-fallacy

20.1. Presuming a claim to be wrong because a fallacy has been committed

21. Ad hominem

21.1. Attack your opponent's character or personal traits in an attempt to undermine their argument

22. Personals incredulity

22.1. Saying that because one finds something difficult to understand, it's therefore not true

23. Loaded question

23.1. Asking a question that has an assumption built into it so that it can't be answered without appearing guilty

24. Ambiguity

24.1. Using double meanings or ambiguities of language to mislead or misrepresent the truth