I called The LBC out on his usual bullshit reposting of Twitteridiots, in this case Clay Travis, who were pushing a lie based on an edited clip of Walensky, who was trying to convey that 75% of the 36 people out of 1.5 million
vaccinated folks had 4 comorbidities.
They tried to make it sound like 75% all the the people who died had comorbidities, which is inaccurate, and that some long covered up truth had accidently been revealed. Patently false.
LBC, and then you, both jump in with the red hearing that had no bearing on the topic at hand. Pretty sad.
Attempting to redirect the argument to another issue that to which the person doing the redirecting can better respond. While it is similar to the avoiding the issue fallacy, the red herring is a deliberate diversion of attention with the intention of trying to abandon the original argument.
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Red Herring
Ignoratio elenchi
(also known as: beside the point, misdirection [form of], changing the subject, false emphasis, the Chewbacca defense, irrelevant conclusion, irrelevant thesis, clouding the issue, ignorance of refutation)
Description: Attempting to redirect the argument to another issue to which the person doing the redirecting can better respond. While it is similar to the
avoiding the issue fallacy, the
red herring is a deliberate diversion of attention with the intention of trying to abandon the original argument.