NIT: I think you mean red herring. A red herring fallacy is misdirection with irrelevant information. A straw man is a type of red herring which specifically in

NIT: I think you mean red herring. A red herring fallacy is misdirection with irrelevant information. A straw man is a type of red herring which specifically involves misrepresenting the original argument. https://socratic.org/questions/what-is-the-difference-between-a-red-herring-and-straw-man-fallacy https://socratic.org/questions/what-is-the-difference-betwee...