For regulars at Ars Technica, the forums are as much a part of the site’s identity as the articles. And where there are forums, there are flame wars. The BattleFront is infamous for its contentious ...

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 ...

If you allow your kids to stay up past their bedtime tonight, they’ll stay up late every night. Real Americans eat meat. If you don’t, you’re not American. This healing herb that I grow in my backyard ...

It is obvious that teaching and research in informal logic (critical thinking, rhetoric) is a growth industry, indeed one of burgeoning proportions. Judging by skyrocketing enrolments and the ...

If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. —Sun Tzu Source: Viktor Vasnetsov/Wikimedia Commons (Public Domain) The enemies of rational thought can take ...