Someone’s always worried that something new is going to lead us down a slippery slope to ruin. When a documentary about deceased chef Anthony Bourdain included footage in which a synthetic voice ...

[This month, I'm serializing my 2003 Harvard Law Review article, The Mechanisms of the Slippery Slope; in yesterday's post, I laid out some examples and definitions, but here I want to flag several ...

[This month, I'm serializing my 2003 Harvard Law Review article, The Mechanisms of the Slippery Slope; in Wednesday's post and yesterday's post, I laid out some examples, definitions, and general ...

The Slippery Slope Argument is an argument that concludes that if an action is taken, other negative consequences will follow. For example, “If event X were to occur, then event Y would (eventually) ...

Amiee Ball is the Founder & CEO of JAB Consulting Group, a company guiding organizations to build successful businesses in a digital world. One of the characteristics of being human is our large ...

Perhaps the fallacy most used to oppose marriage equality is the slippery slope: the argument that to make one decision necessarily leads to other decisions, each one with more egregious consequences.

Blockchain analytics platform BlockSeer has launched the private beta version of a new Bitcoin (BTC) mining pool — Blockseer Mining Pool — that censors transactions from blacklisted wallets. The pool ...

In his State of the Union address, President Barack Obama sounded a familiar and somewhat defensive theme about the Islamic State. Let’s not overreact, he said, against “masses of fighters on the back ...

First Brazil opens the door to same sex marriage: ... yesterday (24 May) the human rights committee in Brazil’s Senate approved a change in the law to say a civil ...

The Slippery Slope Argument is an argument that concludes that if an action is taken, other negative consequences will follow. For example, “If event X were to occur, then event Y would (eventually) ...