Word: hominem
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Evolution skeptics are almost universally dismissed with an ad hominem charge of “religiously-motivated propaganda.” Yet science students and professors consistently fail to address the merits of critics’ arguments. They cannot answer the relevant evidential questions of: (1) what is the most compelling critique of evolution; (2) and on which points the evidence or arguments fail...
After the debate, several council members expressed disappointment in Smith’s approach, calling it ad hominem and inappropriately negative...
...hominem attack is the easy fall back for anyone who disagrees with the Bush administration. For cartoonists, the first thing to do is draw an extra-large pair of ears on the President. Once that’s done, it’s time to contort his face into a vacuous expression, usually some combination of raised eyebrows, yawning mouth, and furrowed brow. And now that George W. has been transformed into Curious George, the simian storybook character, it is essential to insult his intelligence. Never mind that none of this has to do with the war in Iraq...
While the President may never get to the point where he reads Proust and savors escargot, these quiet steps that he and his wife have taken will eventually make an impression on his critics. And when that happens, the ad hominem attacks will have to change. This should not be too hard on the cartoonists and columnists who love to attack him. All they have to do is shift their focus from Bush’s intelligence to his policies...
Some of the criticism of his speech, he says, stems from his having Islam and America relate in a positive manner. He’s seen this on House e-mail lists and in personal ad hominem attacks: “There is a group of criticism that fundamentally objects to having a Muslim-American give the speech,” he says. “That’s very saddening. I expected better of the Harvard community...