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Post #1 Paranormal and Pseudoscience Assignment 1

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Post #1 Paranormal and Pseudoscience Assignment 1

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By Jack Riberdy

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Ancient wisdom includes any type of knowledge or practices used by older civilizations. Science has come far over the hundreds of years and to think older civilizations hold secret remedies is beyond stupid.

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This video on ancient aliens demonstrates the Ancient Wisdom red flag. People believe that humans were unable to form the pyramids and believe ancient beings or aliens helped with the construction.

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Ancient Aliens - The Secrets of Pyramids of Egypt * History Egypt Documentary 2015

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Appeal to Authority is when a celebrity endorses something so their fans can be influenced by it. Whether or not the celebrity knows what they are talking about, it changes their fans beliefs.

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This video shows Donald Trump using Appeal to Authority. During his campaign he tells the crowd false facts about the other candidates. This makes the crowd think that Donald is the smartest and most powerful out of all the candidates.

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Analyzing Trump: 15 Logical Fallacies in 3 Minutes

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Confirmation Bias means that people look for evidence on something but ignore and disbelieve evidence disproving what they are looking for (example: Religion).

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Fortune Tellers exploit people by using Confirmation Bias. They tell them all the good stuff but leave out all of the bad stuff.

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Red Herring red flag is when something distracts you from important information. This leads people to incorrect conclusions.

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This image shows the mother distracting her daughter using the Red Herring red flag. The mother uses irrelevant information to have her daughter forget about the toy on the shelf.

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Mystical Energy red flag is a form of spiritual energy that people believe they possess. People believe that this energy can be used to heal the body in a form of medication.

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This website explains the types of energy people believe to possess and how it elevates them in life.

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Mystical energy is what you sense when you are inspired. You are inspired as you feel the absence of blockage, negation, worry, shyness, anger, and stress, and you are functioning at a level much higher than before.

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Post #7 Reason for Belief: Patternicity 

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Post #7 Reason for Belief: Patternicity 

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Patternicity is explained as people seeing patterns to mean something to them even know they  some of them don't exist.

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This image demonstrates Patternicity by showing a face like structure on the surface of the moon. People believe that this is an alien like object on the moon when in reality it is just a rock formation.

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The Unexplained reason for believe describes the unknown. People use this when something is so bizarre you can't explain it.

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This image demonstrates the Unexplained reason of belief because no one knows what it is. It's nicknamed the Black Knight Satellite and it was found hovering over the Earth. Astronauts caught the object on film while in space.

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Agenticity is when people use paranormal or other beings as meaning to their beliefs.

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Ouija boards use Agenticity as a reason of belief because the premise of the game is to contact spirits. Spirits will move around the piece to certain letters to spell words out.

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Post #10 Critical Thinking Process Question Response

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Post #10 Critical Thinking Process Question Response