Crimes Against Logic by Jamie Whyte

The idea of this book was to explain common logic mistakes to the public. What he ended up with read more like a collection of internent rants about bad logic. And a book on logic really should not contain this many logic mistakes. Like many internet rants he usually starts out good, but gets lost somewhere half through the chapters.

A typical example, pulled from the first chapter discussion of rights and duties. "So the simple fact of human mortality means that everyones's right to be healthy is ultimately violated, and somebody has failed to do his duty." He pretty dismisses the entire concept of right to health with that argument. But he has somehow overlooked that this same argument can be made for the right to life, and right after he has brought up the right to life as an example of a valid one.

Jay