Bing’s Attempt to Render a Crime Scene with Appropriate Detail

A Play: On the Sherlock Holmes Fallacy

Tex and Scotty at it Again!!

I’ve asked Gemini (the most advanced one) to write a play with characters embodying certain fallacies. I’ve asked them to time travel with Aladdin’s genie back to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle to inform him that a future fallacy will be named after HIM! Here is the play written at my request.

Scene 1: The Desert Pursuit

Setting: A vast, sun-baked desert. A rickety, overloaded bandwagon barrels across the sands, kicking up a dust cloud.

Characters:

• Tex (The Texas Sharpshooter): A boisterous cowboy, quick to draw conclusions from cherry-picked evidence.
• Scotty (No True Scotsman): A stubborn, kilt-wearing Scotsman, fiercely protective of his ever-shifting definitions.
• The Strawman: A flimsy, easily-refuted figure, constantly misrepresenting others’ arguments.
• The Steelman: A calm, rational figure, made of gleaming metal, always seeking the strongest form of an argument.
• Red Herring (the pet): A literal, bright red herring, flopping around in a water bowl, distracting everyone.

(The Bandwagon is crammed with maps, magnifying glasses, and half-eaten snacks. Tex is at the wheel, peering through a spyglass.)