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Is there a name for the argument “It worked for <me/family/friends/etc>, so it must be good”?

Not that it's terribly important, but I was having a conversation about feeding my 6 month old son his first solid foods, and when I mentioned I was starting with egg yokes, they s …
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“Studies show”? The ultimate Paleo study…

If you were to design a study that would truly examine the merits of the paleo philosophy, what would it look like? Would it make sense to start with a population of SAD dieters …
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How you guys decide what to down-vote?

Yup, pretty self explanatory. I haven't wielded my awesome down-voting power yet, but might do it sometime. Hopefully it will only be when an argument is very illogical or overly …