Informal Fallacies as Cognitive Heuristics in Public Health Reasoning

The public must make assessments of a range of health-related issues. However, these assessments require scientific know-ledge which is often lacking or ineffectively utilized by the public. Lay people must use whatever cognitive resources are at their disposal to come to judgement on these issues....

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Main Author: Louise Cummings
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Windsor 2014-02-01
Series:Informal Logic
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Online Access:https://ojs.uwindsor.ca/ojs/leddy/index.php/informal_logic/article/view/3801