Welcome back to Get Fit Guy. Kevin Donne here, and in this week I want to take an overview of some of the common biases and fallacies around fitness.

Because once we can be objective and understand why we think and feel the way we do, we can make more informed choices.

It may not come as a surprise to regular listeners that I used to be on a debating team. One of the key factors in being

successful in debating is the ability to recognize and argue against logical fallacies. A logical

fallacy being a statement that appears true until one applies the rules of logic and reason.

Logical fallacies abound in every walk of life, including health and wellness.

Let's have a look at some common logical fallacies and how they crop up.

First we have the straw man fallacy.

This is where in a desperate attempt to defeat another person's argument, one creates an entirely new argument and instead argues that. Instead of

addressing your point, they set up this brand new straw man position, which can often look remarkably similar,

and often they do it just to make you look more extreme.

Here's an example for my own life recently.

I commented on a post by a well-known vegan organization.

There's a really aggressive and derogatory post, obviously targeted towards meat ears.

My point to them was that front on attacking someone else's ideas is not a great strategy. Instead of attacking those of us who do eat meat,

they should focus on creating a compelling argument for not eating meat. But more than anything, they should recognize that in a

society, there will always be people who do things differently from us, and that's okay. In response,

one angry carrot chomper said, right, we should just let people do what makes them happy,

such as Jeffrey Dahmer and his cannibalism.

This is a clear example of a strawman argument, because of course, I'm not advocating for us to make

human burgers. This poster wanted to disorient me make me say, cannibalism's wrong and abhorrent, which of course it is,

but then correlate that with people eating meat. My original point remains unaddressed.

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