Sorry Rick (et al) but your whole discussion is based on a straw man argument.
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Mr. Taylor is guilty of serving up another one of his poor straw man arguments.
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Rather than delivering a death blow to skepticism, the media has merely invented and shredded an insignificant straw man.
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For a start it is based on the straw man argument that things have been terrible in Japan.
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This is an example of using a red herring and straw man disinformation.
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Many of the foot-dragging arguments against the common supervisory plan were based on little more than straw man arguments.
They have attacked a straw man since the day Mr Obama was inaugurated.
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To stand up this straw man the president's critics recycle the same small crop of incriminating quotations time and again.
This is yet another clumsy attempt to employ the straw man method of trying to falsely discredit obvious cause and effect.
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This is not because some puppet-master is pulling strings to fudge the data (a straw man rebuttal if there ever was one).
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Unfortunately Mr. Taylor has begun 2013 as he ended 2012: misrepresenting scientific facts and assigning straw man arguments to his ideological opponents.
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Wolf raises three objections to his straw man: transition, instability, and credibility.
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So the notion of "Homo economicus, " schooled by capitalism to be shortsightedly selfish, is these days something of a straw man ("Homo stramineus"?).
While Saakashvilli is viewed as an agent of Washingtion, the leader of the opposition coalition, Georgian Dream, is allegedly a straw man for Putin.
As video games become the straw man in a battle against gun violence, it is good to see that some researchers are looking at the positive side of gaming.
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The Democrats voted to do away with their favorite straw man of blaming the Bush tax cuts for all that troubles the economy and fiscal imbalance of the Federal government.
One might be to arrange for a straw man to win the election and then step down, paving the way for Mr Putin to return triumphantly in a snap election.
If Krugman wants to create a straw man alternative to Obama Care, he should look at the status quo, not at what Romney may or may not do as President.
In a straw man demonstration of the pitfalls in common statistical analysis, they showed that on the aggregate, women were accepted at a nearly 10% lower rate than men (35% to 44% respectively).
If the Boston Red Sox suffered through the Curse of the Bambino--an 86-year championship drought attributed to their sale of Babe Ruth to the Yankees--call the Mets' whammy the Curse of the Straw Man.
Progressives have long enjoyed wielding the straw man.
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The Bush tax cuts are a straw man.
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This is another weak straw man argument.
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At the same time Gore drones on and on with character assassinations, straw man arguments and out-of-context weather anecdotes, more than two dozen global warming experts will join Watts discussing the science Al Gore hopes we will overlook.
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Thus, we need -- as is being proposed -- to toughen the laws on "straw man" purchases and firearms trafficking and to make it a federal crime to transport a gun into a state where possession of that gun would be illegal.
Supposedly by attacking Wakefield, the primary author of the first highly publicized paper, who is a well-known proponent of the association of childhood vaccinations and autism, then the reality of cause and effect will supposedly just disappear and collapse like a straw man!
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However, by arguing against the current system, supporters of universal government healthcare are aiming at a straw man because, since nothing close to a free market in healthcare exists, the current actions of the insurance and healthcare industries two of the most highly regulated industries are not representative of what might occur in a truly free market.
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