Where We Are with Bury - Fallacy Analyis by Mason Allenger

Fallacy	Quote	Analysis
Poisoning the Well (Red Herrings)	“No one in 1988 would have doubted that the perpetrator was a sexual serial killer carrying out his own perverted agenda.Since 1888 we have learnt much about this type of killer, their damaged childhoods, misfit adulthoods and psychopathic alienation from the human race. One man who embodied all these dire characteristics was William Henry Bury.”	This is an example of poisoning the well because, since W.H. Bury was never actually proven to be a serial killer, the comparison that is made here is irrelevant.
Texas Sharpshooter (False Cause)	“Aside from the fact that Ellen's throat was not cut - in the circumstances it was unnecessary - this was a Ripper crime, the mutilations to the genital area his 'signature'. It is when we directly compare the post mortem report on Ellen to that of Catherine Eddowes and the inquest testimonies on 'Polly' Nichols and Annie Chapman's injuries that we can see that they were all the work of the same man.”	The author dismisses Ellen’s throat being cut and focuses on everything else. A slashed throat was a trait of the Ripper’s murders.
Post Hoc (False Cause)	“The Scotland Yard detectives told James Bury: "We are quite satisfied that you have hanged Jack the Ripper. There will be no more Whitechapel crimes". And there weren't. The dread figure with the knife vanishes with William Bury's execution and crossed the Stygian into Hades.”	There is no evidence to actually support the notion that: because Bury was hanged, the murders ceased.
Cum Hoc (False Cause)	“It is interesting that the ground floor of 29, Hanbury Street was a cat's meat shop; also that 'Polly' Nichols was wearing a jacket with a man leading a horse emblazoned on it. A Horse caused the accident which killed Bury's father.”	The author insists that Nichols was murdered because she was wearing a jacket with a horse emblazoned on it. There’s no proof to support that relationship being causal. There’s not even any proof that W.H. Bury murdered anyone other than his wife.