The following details some of the more common fallacies of logic and rhetoric. It is an important thinking skill to be able to recognise when one or more of the following are being used:

• Ad hominem - attacking the arguer and not the argument.

• Argument from “authority” or "appealing to a higher power"
• Argument from adverse consequences (putting pressure on the decision maker by pointing out dire consequences of an “unfavourable” decision).
• Appeal to ignorance (absence of evidence is not evidence of absence).