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'''Fog displacement''' is an intellectual operation violating the principle of [[Explanation in science|scientific explanation]]. A typical example is Francis Crick’s suggestion that life did not originate on earth at all, but was sent here from outer space.<ref name="DeniableDarwin">{{cite book
|author=David Berlinski
|title=The Deniable Darwin
|publisher=Discovery Institute Press
|location=Seattle, USA
|year=2009
|pages=162
|chapter=The End of Materialist Science
|isbn=978-0-9790141-2-3
|url=http://www.davidberlinski.org/deniable-darwin/about.php
|quote=It is this image that, no doubt, accounted for Francis Crick’s suggestion that life did not originate on earth at all, but was sent here from outer space, a wonderful example of an intellectual operation known as fog displacement.}}</ref>
== See Also ==
*[[Logic of possibility]]
== References ==
{{Reflist}}
[[category:Logical Fallacies]]
[[Category:Methodology of Science]]
[[Category:Pseudoscience]]
[[Category:Rhetoric]]
|author=David Berlinski
|title=The Deniable Darwin
|publisher=Discovery Institute Press
|location=Seattle, USA
|year=2009
|pages=162
|chapter=The End of Materialist Science
|isbn=978-0-9790141-2-3
|url=http://www.davidberlinski.org/deniable-darwin/about.php
|quote=It is this image that, no doubt, accounted for Francis Crick’s suggestion that life did not originate on earth at all, but was sent here from outer space, a wonderful example of an intellectual operation known as fog displacement.}}</ref>
== See Also ==
*[[Logic of possibility]]
== References ==
{{Reflist}}
[[category:Logical Fallacies]]
[[Category:Methodology of Science]]
[[Category:Pseudoscience]]
[[Category:Rhetoric]]