again with the ad hominems someone should program an ad hominem generator to make it easier something along the lines of the postmodernism generator according to er wikipedia a straw man is a type of argument and is an informal fallacy based on misrepresentation of an opponent's position do confer et al suggest that critics misrepresent evolutionary psychology they do in the abstact some of the controversy stems from misunderstandings about the logic of evolutionary psychology and in the body of the paper some critiques are based on misunderstandings and mischaracterizations straw man args about as unimpressive as ad hominems