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Logical Fallacies Student’s Name Institutional Affiliation Logical Fallacies The application of logical fallacies in news media is commonplace considering the need to convince consumers in that parlance. Writers employ a range of fallacies to advance specific agendas. In this analysis, emphasis is put on exploring various logical fallacies in the article “The Trans Woman Who Won Too Much” by Loiusa Thomas in the New Yorker. The article showcases various logical fallacies including informal fallacy, red-herring fallacy, and conditional fallacy. Informal fallacy. "In fact, Thomas’s top time in the five-hundred-yard freestyle is a full ten seconds slower than Ledecky’s, and Franklin’s record is also well ahead of Thomas’s best." The above quote from the article showcases the strawman fallacy, which is an informal fallacy. The strawman fallacy is an informal fallacy in which the author attempts to argue against a proposition by crea...