ABUSES OF EVIDENCE

            confusing facts and opinion
            slippery slope fallacy
            red herring fallacy
            myth of the mean
            incomparable percentages
            misrepresenting sources
            citing out of context
            misusing types of testimony
 

ABUSES OF PROOF

            use pathos to hide the lack of substance
            use mythos to promote elitism or intolerance
            argument ad hominen
 

ABUSES OF ARGUMENTS, PER SE

            unsound major premises
            confusion of probability and certainty
            post hoc reasoning
            non sequiturs
            hasty generalizations
            either-or thinking
            setting up a strawman
 

based on material from Houghton Mifflin