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The British Phonographic Industry's anti-piracy unit has 384 titles by the group in its collection, compared with 320 by the Beatles, 317 by the Rolling Stones, and 301 by Bob Dylan (the subject of "Browser" column on "the bootleg fallacy").
Full-disclosure paragraph: The article in which the "National Review fallacy" appeared was a review of my book, The Moral Animal . One of the review's major complaints was about my alleged failure to realize that Darwinism is a thoroughgoing vindication of the reviewer's various political beliefs (e.g.
A coffee bar full of Gotham's hippest logicians couldn't construct a better example of the begging-the-question fallacy than Anne Hollander's lead to "Black Was Beautiful."
The examples of Bradley and Bush also illustrate the fallacy of taking the SAT as a measure of intelligence or much of anything else-let alone of qualification to be president of the United States.
It suggests, in particular, that what might seem to a naive commentator like a natural conclusion--if productivity growth in the steel industry reduces the number of jobs for steelworkers, then productivity growth in the economy as a whole reduces employment in the economy as a whole--may well involve a crucial fallacy of composition.