HoodaThunk?

I’ve never liked the many-splendored labels being put into common use in political discussion these days that end in the term, “-phobia.” Homophobia. Xenophobia (for the illegal “immigration” debate.) Islamophobia. The reason I don’t like them is that they are all pretty much manifestations of a logical/argumentational fallacy called ad hominem. In an ad hominem [...]

It is a fact that petroleum leaks out of the seafloor and into the ocean on a constant, naturally-occurring basis. It has for centuries – as best as we can tell, it’s actually been millennia. Oil is present in seawater, in other words, and always has been. When massive quantities of the stuff gets released [...]