2642409 2236555] Myth: Fallout radiation from a nuclear war would poison the air and all parts of the environment. It would kill everyone. Fact: When a nuclear weapon explodes near enough to the ground for its fireball to touch the ground, it forms a crater The problem is that particles and ...

I think you missed the part where I said " if you don't know how to disarm it", which if you know how to do such, you shouldn't take the ineffective route of calling out the fallacy but not explaining and disarming it. It may be inelegant and somewhat ineffective, but it is rather quicker when ther...

Don't call out a fallacy if you don't know how to disarm it, otherwise that is in essence the Fallacy fallacy (Since the substance of your argument is essentially calling out a fallacy.) When an argument is based around a Straw Man, it doesn't address the actual argument. Hence, the argument is, ...