Red herring A red herring fallacy occurs when an arguer distracts the reader or listener with some claim that is irrelevant to the issue at hand. The arguer then makes a conclusion concerning the irrelevant issue, or draws no conclusion at all. For instance, Environmentalists have complained about the dangers of nuclear power for quite some time. However, electricity is dangerous no matter how it's generated. In fact, people often forget that electricity is terribly dangerous.
Many people get elect rocuted each year because of such ignorance.
Here the arguer does nothing to address the issue of the dangers of nuclear power, but instead changes the subject to the danger of electricity. If there's even an argument at all here, it certainly has nothing to do with the original issue. Fallacies of Weak Induction 1. In an appeal to authority, the arguer uses the testimony of an expert as a reason to believe his conclusion. There are arguments of this kind that aren't fallacious, as when the expert in question is an expert on the issue the arguer is making a c onclusion about.