It’s Just a Theory

No, sometimes it’s not just a theory. Okay, sure, scientific principles like natural selection and general relativity are theories, but there comes a point when explanations or models become so instructive and so damned useful that they graduate to the level of axioms — a statement or proposition that’s so established, accepted, or self-evidently true that we should refrain from withholding our consent, because to do otherwise would be simply unreasonable.”
http://io9.com/8-logical-fallacies-that-fuel-anti-science-sentiments-1679442426
https://www.livescience.com/21491-what-is-a-scientific-theory-definition-of-theory.html
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/just-a-theory-7-misused-science-words/

“It’s just a theory”

Pick Your Logical Fallacy:

Ad hominem	Bandwagon fallacy	Cherry Picking	False Analogy	Galileo Gambit
Appeal to Authority Fallacy	Burden of Proof Fallacy	Confirmation Bias	False Balance	Natural Fallacy
Appeal to ignorance	False Equivalence	Slippery Slope Fallacy	False Dilemma or Dichotomy	Non sequitur
Appeal to Novelty Fallacy	Special pleading logical fallacy	Straw Man	Tautology	Post hoc ergo propter hoc
Appeal to Tradition Fallacy	The Moving Goalpost	Wishful Thinking Fallacy	Shill Gambit	Ambiguity Fallacy
Post Hoc Fallacy	Shoehorning	Motivated reasoning	Causal Illusions	Cognitive Biases
It's Just a Theory	Tu quoque fallacy	‘It worked for me’ Fallacy	Argument by Analogy	Sunk Cost
Critical Thinking Skills For Dummies	An Illustrated Book of Bad Arguments	The Critical Thinker's Dictionary: Biases, Fallacies, and Illusions and What You Can Do About Them	Logically Fallacious: The Ultimate Collection of Over 300 Logical Fallacies	Nonsense: Red Herrings, Straw Men and Sacred Cows: How We Abuse Logic in Our Everyday Language

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