In the Sept. 24 East Oregonian, Mr. David Arlint wrote a personal attack intended to derail rational discourse, then he asked why the conversation was derailed. Funny! Fallacies are intentionally ...

Funding: This research was funded by the National Science Foundation Division of Information and Intelligent Systems (NSF, Funding number: 2106476). Full details at ...

Yesterday, The Huffington Post yanked conservative firebrand Andrew Breitbart from the front page of its publication, citing his "false ad hominem" attacks made in a Daily Caller interview as the ...

In rhetoric, an ad hominem (“to the man”) is an attack, not on the argument itself, but on the person making it. It is, in simpler words, an attempt to shoot the messenger. When Winston Churchill ...

Beyond ad hominem attacks: A typology of the discursive tactics used when objecting to news commentary on social media (IMAGE) ...

I am writing in response to David Spaugh’s letter of Oct. 11, 2025, about my supposed ad hominem attack regarding Charlie Kirk. Mr. Spaugh goes into a poorly worded statement accusing myself and this ...