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Created by: Keeana Cerezo – working individually

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Definition:
Belief that certain practices, traditions, techniques, etc. that date from ancient times are correct and/or effective regardless of the fact that the ancients held less knowledge than we do in modern times.

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Many believe that prayer will aid the sick and make them recover whatever they are going through. Although there are "miracles" there is still no scientific evidence that praying can heal the sick.

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Products or treatments listed as "all natural" that can potentially cause harm despite of the ingredients being derived from natural properties.

Connection: This video is connected to the "All Natural" red flag. Although medicinal marijuana can help with joint pain, seizures, and chemotherapy side effects to name a few, there are side effects to intaking this natural plant. Some side effects of this are dizziness, confusion and can even worsen mental illnesses.

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Marijuana, weed, pot, dope, grass. They're different names for the same drug that comes from the cannabis plant. You can smoke it, vape it, drink it, or eat it. Most folks use marijuana for pleasure and recreation. But a growing number of doctors prescribe it for specific medical conditions and symptoms.

Marijuana has mind-altering compounds that affect both your brain and body. It can be addictive, and it may be harmful to some people's health. Here's what can happen when you use marijuana:

You Can Get "High"

It's why most people try marijuana. The main psychoactive ingredient, THC, stimulates the part of your brain that responds to pleasure, like food and sex. That unleashes a chemical called dopamine, which gives you a euphoric, relaxed feeling.

If you vape or smoke weed, the THC could get into your bloodstream quickly enough for you to get your high in seconds or minutes. The THC level usually peaks in about 30 minutes, and its effects may wear off in 1-3 hours. If you drink or eat pot, it may take many hours for you to fully sober up. You may not always know how potent your recreational marijuana might be. That also goes for most medical marijuana.

It May Affect Your Mental Health

Not everyone's experience with marijuana is pleasant. It often can leave you anxious, afraid, panicked, or paranoid. Using marijuana may raise your chances for clinical depression or worsen the symptoms of any mental disorders you already have. Scientists aren't yet sure exactly why. In high doses, it can make you paranoid or lose touch with reality so you hear or see things that aren't there.

Your Thinking May Get Distorted

Marijuana can cloud your senses and judgment. The effects can differ depending on things like how potent your pot was, how you took it, and how much marijuana you've used in the past.It might:

Heighten your senses (colors might seem brighter and sounds might seem louder)

Distort your sense of time

Hurt your motor skills and make driving more dangerous

Lower your inhibitions so you may have risky sex or take other chances

You May Get Hooked

About 1 in 10 people who use marijuana will become addicted. That means you can't stop using it even if it harms your relationships, job, health, or finances. The risk is greater the younger you start marijuana and the more heavily you use it. For instance, the odds of addiction are 1 in 6 if you use pot in your teens. It might be as high as 1 in 2 among those who use it every day.

You could also grow physically dependent on marijuana. Your body could go into withdrawal, leaving you irritable, restless, unable to sleep, and uninterested in eating when you don't use it. Learn more about how to spot the signs of marijuana addiction.

It May Impair Your Brain

Marijuana can make it harder for you to focus, learn, and remember things. This seems to be a short-term effect that lasts for 24 hours or longer after you stop smoking.

But using pot heavily, especially in your teen years, may leave more permanent effects. Imaging tests with some -- but not all -- adolescents found that marijuana may physically change their brains. Specifically, they had fewer connections in parts of the brain linked to alertness, learning, and memory, and tests show lower IQ scores in some people.

Your Lungs May Hurt

Marijuana smoke can inflame and irritate your lungs. If you use it regularly, you could have the same breathing problems as someone who smokes cigarettes. That could mean ongoing cough with colored mucus. Your lungs may more easily pick up infections. That's partly because THC seems to weaken some users' immune systems.

It May Ease Your Pain and Other Symptoms

Medical marijuana is legal in some form in a majority of states. And more than 10 states and Washington, DC, have legalized recreational pot. But the federal government's ban on marijuana has made it hard to study its effects on humans. Limited research shows that medicinal pot might help:

You May Feel Hungrier

Many people who use marijuana regularly notice that it boosts their appetite. They call this "the munchies." Some research suggests that might help people with AIDS, cancer, or other illnesses regain weight. Scientists are studying this and whether it's safe.

It May Harm Your Heart

Marijuana makes your heart work harder. Normally the heart beats about 50 to 70 times a minute. But that can jump to 70 to 120 beats or more per minute for 3 hours after the effects kick in. The added strain plus tar and other chemicals in pot may raise your chance of heart attack or stroke. The danger is even bigger if you're older or if you already have heart problems.

It Intensifies Alcohol's Dangers

More than 1 in 10 drinkers say they have used marijuana in the past year. Combining alcohol and marjuana at the same time roughly doubled the odds of drunk driving or legal, professional, or personal problems compared to drinking alone.

Your Newborn Might Be Underweight

Mothers who smoke pot while pregnant face a higher risk of giving birth to underweight or premature babies. But researchers don't know enough to say if those infants are more likely to grow up to struggle in school, use drugs, or have other problems in life.

Connection to Cancer Is Unclear

Researchers haven't found any links between smoking marijuana and cancers in the lung, head, or the neck. Limited evidence suggests that heavy marijuana use may lead to one type of testicular cancer. We don't have enough information whether cannabis may lead to other cancers, including:

What's CBD?

It's short for cannabidiol, a substance found in both marijuana and hemp plants. It doesn't make you high. CBD can be made into CBD oil and sold as pills, gels, creams, and other formulas. Some people use CBD to treat pain, seizures, and other health problems. But scientists aren't yet sure how well it works or if it's safe over the long term. Lack of regulation means you can't always know exactly what you're buying.

Ways to Use Marijuana

You can use marijuana in a variety of ways. Smoking usually offers the quickest way to feel its effects:

Rolled cigarettes

Small handheld pipes

Water pipes, called a bong

A cigar that has been hollowed out and refilled with marijuana, called a blunt

Sticky resins drawn from the cannabis plant. Resins often are loaded with much higher amounts of THC than regular marijuana

You also can mix it into brownies, cookies, candy, tea, and other foods. Eating and drinking the drug delay the high because it has to travel through your digestive system before the THC gets into your bloodstream. So it may take 30 minutes to 2 hours before you feel anything. But edibles give you a high that lasts much longer -- up to 8 hours -- than if you smoke or vape weed.

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How Marijuana Affects Your Mind and Body

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Marijuana, weed, pot, dope, grass. They're different names for the same drug that comes from the cannabis plant. You can smoke it, vape it, drink it, or eat it. Most folks use marijuana for pleasure and recreation. But a growing number of doctors prescribe it for specific medical conditions and symptoms. Marijuana has mind-altering compounds that affect both your brain and body.

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Definition:
Believing in a product or statement merely because the person promoting the product or making the statement is someone of a higher society or has certain credentials (real or not).

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This post is of celebrity Kendall Jenner. She is promoting a teeth whitening product that gradually whitens teeth with ease and no pain. People are lead to believe that this product is legitimate and will help said properties because Kendall Jenner successful model, influence, endorser and member of "Keeping up with the Kardashians" uses the product. Consumers are easily  drawn to products if a there is a familiar face behind their words.

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A fact, statement or idea that is used to confuse, mislead or distract  a relevant or important question. Thus, misleading into a false conclusion or no conclusion at all.

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Donald Trump is asked a series of questions but avoids answering them. What he does is pivots everyone's attention from him by asking the audience questions. This action results in not gaining an answer and the original question being easily forgotten.

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Believing in something due to first hand experience and/or favouring a statement/information because of your own beliefs.

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Having your own hypothesis or belief in something is more than enough confirmation. Because something has happened to you, you choose to ignore other beliefs or facts that are against your own.

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The tendency to find meaningful patterns in objects or images. This is also due to the fact that humans are programmed to detect facial features in most objects or images.

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In this image, a young woman and older woman can be distinguished. Because of our natural programming of finding facial features and from looking at different angles and/or perspectives; we are able to easily match a certain image to something familiar.

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Emotions clouding rational judgement. Our emotions choose wether or not to believe in something because of our blurred out thinking process.

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Tarot readings are done by  psychics or those knowledgable enough to do the readings. Being an outsider with some or no knowledge of tarot cards, we succumb to what the knowledgable person says. Although they may provide information, it is vague enough for us to link it to something currently happening in our lives. We are looking for events, experiences, and people to connect the reading to which makes the tarot reading appeal more to us because of the connections we've made based on the reading.

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Definition:
When an occurrence or experience has an unclear explanation. Because of the unexplainable situation; we try to explain it to ourselves rational or not.

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Area 51 located in southern Nevada, is a common unexplained conspiracy where many believe aliens are involved with it due to certain sightings and the U.S. government are trying to conceal from the public eye. Because of the high security and the fact that no one (other that the U.S military and government) truly know what goes on , we continue to make our own speculations and conspiracies to explain what we see in real time and connect it to what has not been clear from the beginning.

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Post #10: Appeal to Authority — Critical Analysis

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Post #10: Appeal to Authority — Critical Analysis

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Problem:
Does the Hi Smile teeth whitening kit work? Is it effective? Will it cause no pain or sensitivity?

Information:
The video was specifically filmed for the company and was posted on their Facebook account. It is meant to promote the product especially since tv celebrity/model Kendall Jenner is the user for the at home teeth whitening kit.

Evidence:
The video itself lacks information about the product and to learn more about them it requires the viewer to go look at their page. The only thing that sells the product is Kendall because of her presence on social media. Because Kendall Jenner is such a well-known celebrity people automatically think that this product will work for them and it is a product they can trust. Not only does Kendall use this product but so do all the other Jenners and Kardashians.

Assumptions, Biases, Emotions:
In the video, assumptions are made that the product will work because Kendall provides her routine with Hi Smile. Her personal opinion about the teeth whitening kit is biased because she is being sponsored by the company.

Alternatives:
Alternative 1— The teeth whitening kit works and causes no sensitivity and whitens teeth within the given time frame.
Alternative 2— The teeth whitening kit does not whiten teeth within the given timeline and causes sensitivity.
Alternative 3— The teeth whitening kit does work on some clients but the results are not as drastic compared to the celebrity endorsers.

Best Alternative:
Alternative 3— The teeth whitening kit does work on some clients but the results are not as drastic compared to the celebrity endorsers. This is the best alternative judging from other reviews on YouTube from ordinary buyers. (supportive link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9ihfbWB4f8)