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'''Damning the Alternatives''' is a logical fallacy that occurs when someone ranks favorably a certain position by selectively choosing just its pros while treats all other alternatives with bias, emphasizing solely their cons. From logical standpoint, one cannot prove that the position A is a better one or superior to others just by showing that there are difficulties with other positions. In extreme case, the alternative views are intentionally ignored completely or even suppressed and their supporters persecuted; and/or, all positive alternatives are denied and only negative is promulgated wrt. certain position.   

'''Damning the Alternatives''' is a logical fallacy that occurs when someone ranks favorably a certain position by selectively choosing just its pros while treating all other alternatives with bias, emphasizing solely their cons. From logical standpoint, one cannot prove that the position A is a better one or superior to others just by showing that there are difficulties with other positions. In extreme case, the alternative views are intentionally ignored completely or even suppressed and their supporters persecuted; and/or, all positive alternatives are denied and only negative is promulgated wrt. certain position.   

According to [[Karl Popper]], a noted authority on scientific methodology, whenever a [[hypothesis]] appears to a [[scientist]] as the only possible one, it should be taken as a sign that he or she have neither understood the hypothesis nor the problem which it was intended to solve. He also urges investigators to construct ''alternative'' theories - althernatives even to those theories which appear to one inescapable. Only in that way the theories held could be understood.<ref name="Hedtke">{{cite book

According to [[Karl Popper]], a noted authority on scientific methodology, whenever a [[hypothesis]] appears to a [[scientist]] as the only possible one, it should be taken as a sign that he or she have neither understood the hypothesis nor the problem which it was intended to solve. He also urges investigators to construct ''alternative'' theories - althernatives even to those theories which appear to one inescapable. Only in that way the theories held could be understood.<ref name="Hedtke">{{cite book