overgeneralizes from the example of one deceptive researcher uses an irrelevant personal attack on the integrity of someone infers that something must be a myth from the fact that the general public believes it presupposes that, in general, only evidence from experiments can support beliefs
Journalist: One reason many people believe in extrasensory perception (ESP) is that they have heard of controlled experiments in which ESP is purportedly demonstrated. However, ESP is a myth and the public is deluded by these experiments, for a prominent researcher has admitted to falsifying data on psychic phenomena in order to obtain additional grants.
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