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sophistry
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The 2022 vaccine mandate decision, another 6-3 masterpiece, turned on sophistry that workplace rules only covered hazards found solely in the workplace (but somehow excluding, say, forced air-breathing with infected employees), and ignored the deeper reality that vaccines save lives.—
The Editors,
Scientific American,
10 July 2024 -
Today, no amount of sophistry can sustain that claim.—
Andrew J. Bacevich,
Foreign Affairs,
28 Feb. 2023
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“Sophism.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sophism. Accessed 24 May. 2025.
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