badarguments

An Illustrated Book of Bad Arguments

Bad Arguments has been read by over three million visitors since its release in July 2013. This repository contains the code and documentation for the project, including all translations. It also includes the code for An Illustrated Book of Loaded Language—the follow-on project to Bad Arguments that was released in November 2021. That project is available at bookofbadarguments.com/loaded-language.

How to contribute

I’m grateful to anyone wishing to contribute to the project. If you wish to translate the book to a new language, you’re welcome to contact me privately and send me the translated text and captions in a document. I can then take care of porting everything to the website. That is what we’ve been doing so far.

Alternatively, you may wish to download the code for an existing translation, modify it, and then send me your work along with the new captions as a Pull Request. You can find all existing languages in the repository as top-level directories, identified with their two-letter ISO 639-1 code (e.g. pt, es, he).

You are welcome to suggest corrections or submit suggestions by opening an issue or by submitting a Pull Request using the controls at the top of this page.

Translations

• Spanish (María Corchero)
• Brazilian Portuguese (Diogo Lindner)
• Arabic (Sadiq Alnemer)
• Portuguese (Anton Stark)
• Simplified Chinese (Peng Liang)
• Finnish (Mikko Muilu, Harri Heikkilä, Timo Ylimäki, Marja Oilinki, Tere Sammallahti, Lauri Palsa)
• Slovak (Filip Klinovský)
• Hebrew (Noam Hadar, Assaf Linial)
• Greek (Rafael Ketsetsides) [work-in-progress]
• Czech (Jaromír Matýšek)
• Bulgarian (Carrie Djokova, Violeta Kunovska)
• French (Alcide Leon)
• Japanese (Masahito Nangaku)
• German (Claudia Aden, Ian Erik Stewart)
• Russian (Alexander Maslov, Shashi Martynova)
• Slovenian (Zofijini, with an afterword by Boris Vezjak)
• Ukranian (Ріна, Пальма, 221V)

Related material

• List of contributors
• Photos of Bad Arguments in the real world
• Talk: Open-Sourcing the Creative Process
• Podcast: Metalearn interview
• Video: This Week in Tech interview

In the press

• How to be a human lie detector of fake news, according to the latest science, CNN.com
• Why smart people believe coronavirus myths, BBC.com
• Summer Reading For The College-Bound, NPR
• A Finnish article on teaching children about logical arguments, yle.fi
• In the Mailbag: BEA 2015 Edition, Book Riot
• San Diego Book Review
• Hones Of Contention, The Common Reader
• A Fun Primer on How to Strengthen, Not Weaken, Your Arguments; Open Culture
• Eight Cousins Pick of the Year 2014
• Now More Than Ever, You Need This Illustrated Guide To Bad Arguments; Fast Company
• Teach Your Kids Logic With An Illustrated Book of Bad Arguments by Jenny Williams, GeekDad
• 9 Charming Cartoons Explaining Logical Fallacies, BuzzFeed
• Bad arguments, great illustrations by Cory Doctorow at Boing Boing
• This Little Piggy Made A Logical Error, The Dish
• A guide to fallacious arguments, illustrated with funny animals; io9
• Appearance in Page Turners, submitted by Ellen at The Griswold Inn Store
• National Indie Bestsellers - Extended Hardcover Nonfiction
• Southern Indie Bestseller List
• ‘Bad Arguments’ will entertain, help you diagnose poor logic; Omaha.com
• Tripping Over Logic, The Philosophy Club
• The Lost Art of Making Sense, ABC Radio
• New hardcover books teach kids through superheroes, gaming, art; Denver Post
• Greenville Public Library review
• How to argue, with others and yourself; Andreessen Horowitz Weekend Newsletter
• Shelf Awareness starred review
• The Booklist Reader review
• Article on the Farsi translation
• Review of the Farsi translation

License

The Bad Arguments and Loaded Language code is shared under the terms of the Creative Commons BY-NC License v3.0.