“…A sizeable literature now exists on non-fallacious variants of most of the major fallacies. 7 An altogether smaller literature has sought to describe how these fallacies function non-fallaciously within the context of important public health issues (Cummings, 2002(Cummings, , 2004(Cummings, , 2009(Cummings, , 2010(Cummings, , 2011(Cummings, , 2012a(Cummings, , 2012b(Cummings, , 2012c(Cummings, , 2013(Cummings, , 2014d. What these latter studies have revealed is that these argument forms can sustain reasoning in contexts that preclude other modes of reasoning, principally deduction and induction.…”