Expose an Irrational Belief, keep a person rational for a day
Expose Irrational Thinking, keep a person rational for a lifetimeDr. Bo Bennett, in Logically Fallacious: The Ultimate Collection of 300 Logical Fallacies
Some in the agile community, when criticized, play the Ad Hominem card. Let's look to see what Bo tells us...
An ad hominem argument or reaction is directed to the person making the argument, rather than the argument itself when the attack on the person is completely irrelevant to the argument the person is making.
There is an exception which is the logical fallacy of those claiming critics are making ad hominem attacks
When the attack on the person Is Relevant to the argument it is not a fallacy.