Broadwood Partners, L.P. and its affiliates commented on the investor presentation issued by Alcon Inc. (ALC) regarding its proposed acquisition of STAAR Surgical Company (STAA). Broadwood, which owns ...

The Internet is teeming with crazies, jerks, and blowhards; and in online forums, debaters are full of passionate intensity. Peruse the comments area on any popular blog, and you’ll find more ...

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) ...

Two new books argue for doing away with the rich. Not in the Pol Pot sense of murdering them all, for the writers—a Dutch professor of ethics and the director of a left-wing British think-tank—are ...

In an era of “post-truth” and “truthiness,” it can be hard to defend the common-sense belief that reality exists independently of how people think about it. Skepticism about reality comes in many ...

Recently, the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) published a fallacious and highly biased opinion article by Sadanand Dhume, which drew a comparison between Iran’s nuclear program and Pakistan’s. It puts a ...