Identify Any Fallacies in the Following Passage Either by Naming

question 117

Short Answer

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."

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Definitions:

Subsidiary Ledger

A detailed ledger that provides a breakdown of individual transactions affecting a control account in the general ledger, such as accounts receivable or accounts payable.

General Ledger

The master set of accounts that summarize all transactions occurring within an entity, serving as the main accounting record.

Special Journals

Accounting records that are used for the repeated recording of similar types of transactions, such as sales or purchases.

Control Accounts

An account in the general ledger that summarizes and aggregates the details of a subsidiary ledger.