File:FLICC Taxonomy of Logical Fallacies.jpg

Original file(1,080 × 1,080 pixels, file size: 98 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg)

Summary

Description
English: FLICC Taxonomy of Techniques found in Science Denial

There are five main techniques used to deny science. They can be remembered with the acronym FLICC:

Fake Experts
Logical Fallacies
Impossible Expectations
Cherry Picking
Conspiracy Theories

Each of these has one or more sub-fallacies shown in the taxonomy.

To learn more about FLICC and the Taxonomy of Logical Fallacies, please watch these videos from the UQx MOOC "Denial101x - Making sense of climate science denial":
Five Characterstics of Science Denial
The Techniques of Science Denial - Part 1
The Techniques of Science Denial - Part 2
The Techniques of Science Denial - Part 3

The article A history of FLICC: the 5 techniques of science denial provides additional background information.

To learn more about the CONSPIR icons related to conspiracy fallacies, please check The Conspiracy Handbook

Searching Wikimedia commons for "Fallacy Icon" will find the list of individual icons from the taxonomy, or get to them via the list of our uploaded files.
Date
Source Own work
Author SkepticalScience
This diagram image could be re-created using vector graphics as an SVG file. This has several advantages; see Commons:Media for cleanup for more information. If an SVG form of this image is available, please upload it and afterwards replace this template with {{vector version available|new image name}}.


It is recommended to name the SVG file “FLICC Taxonomy of Logical Fallacies.svg”—then the template Vector version available (or Vva) does not need the new image name parameter.

Licensing

I, the copyright holder of this work, hereby publish it under the following license:
w:en:Creative Commons
attribution share alike
This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license.
You are free:
  • to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work
  • to remix – to adapt the work
Under the following conditions:
  • attribution – You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.
  • share alike – If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same or compatible license as the original.

Captions

FLICC Taxonomy of Techniques found in Science Denial

Items portrayed in this file

depicts

4 March 2020

image/jpeg

File history

Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.

Date/TimeThumbnailDimensionsUserComment
current08:27, 21 March 2020Thumbnail for version as of 08:27, 21 March 20201,080 × 1,080 (98 KB)SkepticalScienceTaxonomy updated with icons related to conspiracy theories - CONSPIR (see The Conspiracy Handbook - http://sks.to/conspiracy)
21:06, 8 March 2020Thumbnail for version as of 21:06, 8 March 20201,216 × 934 (278 KB)SkepticalScienceUploaded own work with UploadWizard
The following pages on the English Wikipedia use this file (pages on other projects are not listed):

Global file usage

The following other wikis use this file: