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Falsehoods & Distortions
post hoc - proclaiming that because something occurred after X, it was caused by X, when no causal relationship at all may exist.
02:29: post hoc - proclaiming that because something occurred after X, it was caused by X, when no causal relationship at all may exist. : Taking credit for eliminating out-of-network surprise medical billing, when Trump passed that legislation before leaving office in December 2020.[2]
28:22: post hoc - proclaiming that because something occurred after X, it was caused by X, when no causal relationship at all may exist. : Crediting the Trump tax cut for the rise in blue collar wages, when much of those gains can be attributed to minimum wage increases at the state level.[5]
28:51: post hoc - proclaiming that because something occurred after X, it was caused by X, when no causal relationship at all may exist. : Crediting stop-and-frisk for a decline in the murder rate, when it had already been declining years before stop-and-frisk was implemented.[7]
10:12: post hoc - proclaiming that because something occurred after X, it was caused by X, when no causal relationship at all may exist. : 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]
