Identify any fallacies in the following passage either by naming them or, where they seem not to conform to any of the patterns described in the text, by giving a brief explanation of why the fallacious reasoning is irrelevant to the point at issue."It says here that smoke from wood-burning stoves, no matter how airtight they're supposed to be, gets into your house and is a health hazard.""No way. We just spent close to a thousand dollars on this new stove; what you're reading can't be true."

Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).


Wishful thinking.

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