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Falsehoods & Distortions
post hoc - proclaiming that because something occurred after X, it was caused by X, when no causal relationship may exist at all.
10:12: post hoc - proclaiming that because something occurred after X, it was caused by X, when no causal relationship may exist at all. : Taking credit for the low unemployment rate after 10 months, when the rate had been falling for 7 consecutive years, before he took office.[6]
17:27: post hoc - proclaiming that because something occurred after X, it was caused by X, when no causal relationship may exist at all. : Taking credit for lowering taxes 18 times, when 11 of those 18 times were just renewals of tax breaks that already existed.[4]
