Photo Illustration by The Daily Beast / Photo by Brendan Smialowski / GettyFormer President Donald Trump and his lawyers don’t seem to understand the concept of disqualification. It means you don’t get to play.In the Colorado lawsuit seeking to disqualify him from being on the state ballot for the 2024 presidential election, Trump’s argument boils down to claiming that voters—not courts—should decide whether he can win back the presidency. As his lawyer, Scott Gessler puts it: “(This lawsuit) lo
Photo Illustration by The Daily Beast / Photo by Brendan Smialowski / GettyFormer President Donald Trump and his lawyers don’t seem to understand the concept of disqualification. It means you don’t get to play.In the Colorado lawsuit seeking to disqualify him from being on the state ballot for the 2024 presidential election, Trump’s argument boils down to claiming that voters—not courts—should decide whether he can win back the presidency. As his lawyer, Scott Gessler puts it: “(This lawsuit) lo
In academia, one of the most common criticisms in research and discussions is that correlation does not mean causation. It refers to the logical fallacy for some who draw a cause-and-effect relationship between two events. The logical fallacy is captured in the Latin phrase cum hoc ergo propter hoc ('with this, therefore because of this'). With…