Episode 0017: Ad hominem (original episode)

This is an original episode on Ad Hominem. Show notes (stuff we mentioned that you might want to follow up, or not, whatever… totally up to you): Reading from the book (Ad Hominem) The master of vitriolic Ad Hominem and Browbeating - Gordon Ramsay - fromKitchen Nightmares (I think...) Reductio Ad Hitlerum and Goodwin’s Law An example of likening a contemporary political leader to Hitler from people who’d been to see a talk by Al Gore organised by moveon.org (no points for guessing the leader of who I speak...) . This is obviously a case of cherry picking, but nonetheless…. Here's the youtube clip I used: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FiOpOGJsLhU. (I also slipped in a bit of Monty Python here (Gumbies) Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and the earwax incident (prior to being elected) Blackadder Goes Fourth - Captain Cook The evil brain teaser I mentioned Direct download: https://archive.org/download/HH101/HH101e0017.mp3 The Second (eBook) Edition of Humbug! is available for about US$3.99 from: Amazon (Kindle) Google Play  Apple iBooks LULU (DRM free ePub)