Forty-four Foul Ways to Win an Argument

from The Thinker's Guide to Fallacies

1	Accuse Your Opponent of Doing What He is Accusing You of (or worse)
2	Accuse Him of Sliding Down ASlippery Slope (that leads to disaster)
3	Appeal to Authority
4	Appeal to Experience
5	Appeal to Fear
6	Appeal to Pity (or sympathy)
7	Appeal to Popular Passions
8	Appeal to Tradition or Faith ("the tried and true")
9	Assume a Posture of Righteousness
10	Attack the person (and not the argument)
11	Beg the Question
12	Call For Perfection (Demand impossible conditions)
13	Create a False Dilemma (the Great Either/Or)
14	Devise Analogies (and Metaphors) That Support Your View (even if they are misleading or "false")
15	Question Your Opponent's Conclusions
16	Create Misgivings: Where There's Smoke, There's Fire
17	Create A Straw Man
18	Deny or Defend Your Inconsistencies
19	Demonize His Side Sanitize Yours
20	Evade Questions, Gracefully
21	Flatter Your Audience
22	Hedge What You Say
23	Ignore the Evidence
24	Ignore the Main Point
25	Attack Evidence (That Undermines Your Case)
26	Insist Loudly on a Minor Point
27	Use the Hard-Cruel-World Argument (to justify doing what is usually considered unethical)
28	Make (Sweeping) Glittering Generalizations
29	Make Much of Any Inconsistencies in Your Opponent's Position
30	Make Your Opponent Look Ridiculous ("lost in the laugh")
31	Oversimplify the Issue
32	Raise Nothing But Objections
33	Rewrite History (Have It Your Way)
34	Seek Your Vested Interests
35	Shift the Ground
36	Shift the Burden of Proof
37	Spin, Spin, Spin
38	Talk in Vague Generalities
39	Talk Double Talk
40	Tell Big lies
41	Treat Abstract Words and Symbols As If They Were Real Things
42	Throw In A Red Herring (or two)
43	Throw in Some Statistics
44	Use Double Standards (Whenever you can)