Every time I wash my car, it rains the next day. My car washing definitely affects the weather*

A) Scare Tactics: Using fear to sway people by exaggerating possible dangers well beyond their statistical likelihood.

B) Faulty Causality: Incorrect assumption that one event caused another event. Correlation does not imply causation.

C) Ad Hominem: In Latin, this means to the man. When you attach a person’s character instead of the quality of his/her ideas. Tu quoque is a specific type of ad hominem when you basically call someone a hypocrite instead of debating his/her ideas.

D) Hasty Generalization: An inference drawn from insufficient evidence.

E) Appeal to False Authority: Presenting an unqualified person or institution as a source of credible information.