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Review Exercise IIa: War of the Worlds
Identify the fallacies that occur in the following long passage.
 

 
          Take it from me, the Earth is being invaded!  Why, last year alone the National Inquirer reported no less than six landings of extra-terrestrial creatures. Yet, despite the evidence, mainstream scientists, who, on balance, are little more than a pack of bureaucrats whose incompetence is equaled only by their arrogance, have refused to recognize the threat. Hasn't their blind refusal to take the matter seriously caused enough delay? It is criminal not to be on our guard. Just consider the frightful destruction of our way of life if the invasion should be successful!
          If we continue to ignore the threat of an extra-terrestrial invasion the habit of ignoring anything not accepted by modern science will become ingrained. We will become incapable of recognizing new species even here on earth, or of considering other challenges to scientific orthodoxy. As a fair-minded and forward thinking inquirer, you would naturally object to such a state of affairs.
         But, in the end, such matters are unimportant. Once the aliens are in control little else will matter. Humans will be desperately unhappy under a government run by alien beings. Not being human, they cannot, as individuals, understand or appreciate human concerns. Hence any administration they impose on us will be without sympathy to our uniquely human perspective. Humans have never been ruled by alien beings. We ought not to allow it to happen now!

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