Straw man arguments attribute unstated claims to opponents

Evidence

A straw man argument is a bogus argument where you impute an easily attackable statement to the other person that they did not even make. Thus one foists the assertion on homoeopathy critics that a homoeopathic treatment is ineffective, if they actually only point out that the globules administered thereby are placebos. — Holm Gero Hümmler, Ulrike Schiesser, Fact and Prejudice, 274

Categorization

• DEFINE: Concrete definition of the straw man fallacy with a homeopathy example.
• XREF: connects to: Critics invent straw opponents to sustain a sense of being embattled — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1210