“Pooh-Pooh” is a fallacy of informal logic and criticism that dismisses an argument perceived unworthy of serious consideration or as being foolish or impractical. This fallacy puts down an argument, without logically addressing it. It is a form of the Straw Man’s argument, in which an argument is purposefully misrepresented to make it easier to attack. However, whereas the strawman restates the initial claim in a distorted way and attacks it, the pooh-pooh argument does not address any arguments, but merely ridicules it. One might poo-pooh an argument outright, or agree with a point in general but then disagree about the specific case in hand. For example:
Person A:
Person B:
Similarly, when Charles Darwin published On the Origin of Species