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I just learned about the logical fallacy called "Invincible Ignorance"!
Barney Frank mentioned it on Rachel's show last night while discussing the republicans. This is from the Wikipedia entry:
The invincible ignorance fallacy is a deductive fallacy of circularity where the person in question simply refuses to believe the argument, ignoring any evidence given. It is not so much a fallacious tactic in argument as it is a refusal to argue in the proper sense of the word, the method instead being to make assertions with no consideration of objections.
Gosh, that sounds familiar.
