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Politics, News & Issues > US News Reflections: Current use of Strauss's argumentum ad Hitlerum fallacy

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The philosopher Leo Strauss saw in 1950 that a new form of a logical fallacy was going to be used, the argumentum ad Hitlerum. The fallacy is that if something is like Hitler or what the Nazis did, it must be evil. Three debatably smart people both used the same fallacy within weeks of each other, so I feel a need to address it on a philosophical level.
The first use comes from Ben Stein, who is promoting the new Creationism, aka the Intelligent Design movement. His reasoning against it is that there is a straight line from Darwin to the holocaust. Thus, evolution must be wrong. The p...

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