Weasel Words
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Description
Weasel words are words that create the impression of specific meaning but are in fact ambiguous and give you room to back down from your claims when challenged. You can always weasel your way out of a difficult debate if you never say anything specific to begin with!
Example
"Research shows...", "Studies prove...", "Experts say..."
What research shows this? Who exactly are these experts?
"It often occurs...", "Many examples..."
How often does it occur? What are the examples?
Famous Examples
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The reason there are so many gay people now is because it's a chemical warfare operation. I have the government documents where they said they're going to encourage homosexuality with chemicals so people don't have children.
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Present-day science, conventional medicine, and the mindset of 'better living through chemistry' have delivered their results, and they are less an excellent. Essentially, due to poor results, these methods no longer reign supreme.
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I feel genius in great works of art. I have seen medical cures that science can’t explain, some seemingly triggered by faith. The same is true of millions of other people.
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Research has shown that the best way to be happy is to make each day happy.
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Scientists claim that quantum theory proves consciousness moves to another universe at death.
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When Mexico sends its people, they’re not sending the best. They’re not sending you, they’re sending people that have lots of problems and they’re bringing those problems with us. They’re bringing drugs. They’re bring crime. They’re rapists… And some, I assume, are good people.
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Hillary wants to shut down energy production. I want to expand it. Lower electric bills, folks! Hillary wants to abolish, essentially abolish, the Second Amendment. By the way, and if she gets to pick --if she gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do, folks. Although the Second Amendment people, maybe there is, I don't know.
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Eventually we’re going to get something done and it’s going to be really, really good.
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I know more about ISIS than the generals do, believe me... I would bomb the shit out of them.
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I understand the military. I know the military.
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Bill O'Reilly: Putin is a killer.
Donald Trump: There are a lot of killers. We have a lot of killers. Well, you think our country is so innocent?
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Somebody made the statement that Donald Trump has built or owns the greatest collection of golf courses, ever, in the history of golf. And I believe that is 100 percent true.
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I have a great relationship with the blacks. I've always had a great relationship with the blacks.
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An 'extremely credible source' has called my office and told me that @BarackObama's birth certificate is a fraud.
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Experiments with termites have proven they continue communicating even when separated by steel plates. These plates would block any physical transmission of pheromones. Researchers are now looking for evidence of these abilities in humans.
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She is able to communicate with the colony, no matter the distance, as long as she is alive. Scientists tend to credit this behavior to pheromones: complex chemicals which are used to communicate using the sense of smell. However, some doubt pheromones can explain the sophisticated communication over far distances.
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Throughout history, people have proclaimed that all living beings, especially humans, emit an aura. You see visible proof of this belief in art. Several paintings and sculptures that depict divinity always have a halo around the head of the subject. This is a visible depiction of the aura that the most knowledgeable people and the brightest minds in history believe existed.
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As science evolved, proof and evidence took precedence over belief. Today, even the most skeptical scientist would admit that human beings and other living organisms do emit energy. This is because we use energy for every action, even for something as simple as scratching our nose. Is it that much of a stretch to imagine that this energy or aura can be read and understood?
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While the CDPH has been careful not to label cell phones as dangerous, and is simply warning users to keep their phones away from their bodies when they’re sleeping and not to carry them in their pockets, the fact is that experts have been warning for some time now that these devices can cause brain cancer, tumors, impaired memory, loss of hearing, headaches and trouble sleeping.
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Now, thanks to the climate change hoax narrative, a shockingly high percentage of liberals actually believe that there were no forest fires, no hurricanes, no tornadoes, no floods, no droughts and no snow storms before the invention of the combustion engine (and the subsequent burning of fossil fuels).
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Some prominent researchers believe that our intelligence, creativity, and imagination interact with the energy field of intention rather than being thoughts or elements in our brain.
Context: The Power of Intention: Learning to Co-Create Your World Your Way
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