Red Herring Fallacy Question Pack - Free Download

After 9/11, the US government said Iraq had weapons of mass destruction that threatened the world. When none were found, the conversation quietly shifted: Saddam Hussein was evil and needed to go. Nobody kept asking about the weapons. Over 185,000 people died, and the original question was never answered.

The new argument wasn't wrong - Saddam was brutal. But it wasn't the reason given for the invasion. It was a different, more emotionally compelling topic dropped into the conversation to stop people looking at the one that had fallen apart.

That's the Red Herring: dodging a point by dragging the conversation somewhere else entirely - and hoping nobody notices the original question is still sitting there, unanswered. Your kids pull it and cop it daily. In every "yeah, but what about..." they'll ever be handed. This free Question Pack teaches them to catch it.

What's in the free Question Pack:

• Discussion and research questions that get kids arguing about the Iraq War story - the productive kind of arguing
• A guided walk through what happened when the weapons that justified a war never turned up - and the question got answered with a completely different story
• An answer sheet, so you can run it at the dinner table or in a classroom with zero prep

The deal, stated plainly

We teach people to spot manipulation, so it would be a bit rich to hide ours. This pack is free because it's the best advertisement we have. You hand over your email, we send the download, and every so often we'll email you about new comics, book and our card game. Unsubscribe the moment we get boring. 

One email. Check your spam folder - our goodies have a talent for landing there. 

What the free pack doesn't include

The fully illustrated Winston Churchill story. The Duchess & Bruno comic. The Spot-the-Fallacy hunt through real ads and headlines. The Code Breaker, the Draw Your Own Comic page, and the hidden Gizmo kids go feral trying to find.

All of that lives in the Red Herring Activity Pack - a 20-page printed booklet, rated 5.0 by teachers and parents on Etsy and TPT. 

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "My kids absolutely adore the characters and story! It reminds us of horrible histories. I haven't found anything like this pack before." - Sandra

It's one of 24. Every pack takes one fallacy, one historical disaster and one comic - and turns them into a kid who is very hard to fool.