Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-32182236-20190721003717/@comment-32182236-20190930214235

You're thinking of the tool that's used to decieve, used by authors of mystery magazines.

I'm describing the fallacy of the red herring. When you're using a red herring.. In a debate. And that would be by taking one premise, and falsely saying that said statement implies that what you're arguing is for.

Using an outlier, which is there, to make the hypothesis more probable than it is, by ignoring everything else.. Is called cherrypicking.