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Identify the fallacy. If there is no fallacy, choose "No fallacy".

Question 1. Every time I eat spicy food I get indigestion. I better not eat this spicy curry.

Question 2. Increasing the amount of oil transported through pipelines in Canada will not make much of a difference to our carbon footprint. The real problem is the amount of greenhouse gases produced by industry.

Question 3. Renowned geneticist and director of the National Institutes of Health, Francis Collins, encourages widespread vaccination against COVID-19. However, his advise should be disregarded: by his own admission he strangely converted to religion after encountering "a striking image of a frozen waterfall".

Question 4. Houses on the West Shore tend to be larger than houses in Oak Bay. Therefore, West Shore houses must have bigger bedrooms as well.

Question 5. There is no better way to run a meeting than Robert's Rules of Order. From the United States to Malaysia, one can scarcely find a meeting that doesn't use Robert's Rules.

a) No fallacy

b) Ad Hominem

c) Appeal to Common Practice

d) Appeal to Emotion

e) Appeal to Ignorance

f) Appeal to Popularity

g) Appeal to Tradition

h) Begging the Question

i) Composition

j) Division

k) Equivocation

l) False Dilemma

m) Faulty Analogy

n) Genetic

o) Hasty Generalization

p) Red Herring

q) Slippery Slope

r) Straw Man