When "bill o'reilly" asked "dr. susan van etten" if she had ever been to alaska, he engaged in a(n)?

This was a red herring. It is a type of question intended to throw off the debate by switching the focus of the questions. The question about going to Alaska has nothing to do with the topic at hand, and can lead the listener or viewer to make a faulty conclusion about the speaker or the concepts that the speaker is trying to debate.

Early 18th century british industries were generally small scale and relatively unsophisticated. most textile production, for example, was centred on small workshops or in the homes of spinners, weavers and dyers: a literal ‘cottage industry’ that involved thousands of individual manufacturers. such small-scale production was also a feature of most other industries, with different regions specialising in different products: metal production in the midlands, for example, and coal mining in the north-east.two illustrations of 18t