Post hoc ergo propter hoc: Torture edition
By Lindsay Beyerstein Washington Post reporters Peter Finn, Joby Warrick, and Julie Tate lend credence Dick Cheney's fallacious argument that because Khalid Sheik Mohammed began cooperating with U.S. authorities after he was tortured, torture made him cooperate. The story is based the reminiscences of unnamed intelligence officers who observed Mohammed in 2005 and 2006. They … Read more