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Fallacies of Insufficient Evidence:

Fallacies of Relevance:Red HerringThis video advertisement is demonstrating an example of Fallacy of Red Herring. Burger king advertiser tend to divert the attention of the viewer from the original main burger issue by bringing in an irrelevant issue of the funny snake behaviour that showed by the actor.Source from websiteAppeal to Emotions:Appeal to Fear

This advertisement is an example for appeal to fear. The advertisers threaten the smokers that they might get lung cancer if they smoke continuously. The advertiser did not state the word before and after below of the pictures of the lung this small mistake will lead to misunderstanding.

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Fallacies of Insufficient Evidence:Loaded Question

The advertisement shows the fallacy of loaded questions. It creates unfair assumptions without evidence to convince students to enroll in their tuition center. The advertiser should ask question like Do you need helps to improve your academic performance? instead of unhappy with performance in mock exam to avoid becoming loaded question.

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Fallacies of Insufficient Evidence:

Slippery Slope

This advertisement shows that it is an example for fallacies of insufficient evidence which is slippery slope. It claimed that Vitagen is less sugar but there is no prove to show it. The advertisement should show the percentage of the amount of sugar to let the consumer know.

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THE STAR (AUGUST 21, 2011)

Fallacies of Insufficient Evidence:

Inappropriate Appeal to Authority

This advertisement is an example for Inappropriate Appeal to Authority. It shows that the image of an artist is larger than the product. The consumer will focus more on the artist than the product so the advertiser should larger the image of the product to promote it clearly.

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CLS AD FOR MAYBELLINE NEW YORK HYPERSHARP LINER IN GRAZIA KOREA MAGAZINE (FEBRUARY 21, 2014)5