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Title : Assignment 1
made by: Maitri Dave, working indiviually

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Post #2 Red flag   Appeal to Authority (Image) 

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Post #2 Red flag   Appeal to Authority (Image) 

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Defenation:
Apepeal to authority means celebrity indorcement which is used to sell products by appealing customer's authority.
Connection:
In this picture product is displayed by Justin Bieber who is very famous singer and they are trying to convince all the teenagers that they can also be famouse and sucssesful if they do as Justine Beiber says.  This is a major red flag as Justin is not a qualified person to say that this product is as good.

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Ancient wisdom means using our old ancient facts to prove something that actually does not exists. These kind of theories applies to some todays facts that were told very long time ago.
Connection:
In this video they have explained some facts which were told hundreds and hundreds of years ago. And they have also tried to state that these facts are true. This is a red flag because they don’t have any evidence but still trying to prove by using ancient fantasies.

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10 Ancient Greek Myths That Turned Out To Be True

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Post #4 Red flag Suprretion by authorities (Artical)  

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Post #4 Red flag Suprretion by authorities (Artical)  

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Definition:
Suppression by authorities means hiding information using your authorities. This either could be for benefit of public or just to not make a big deal out of it.
Connection:
Sometimes this type of acts can be major issues. As mentioned in article, suppression of information about corona virus led to a very big outbreak of very serious disease.  This diseasee could have been stop or atleast could have taken some steps to avoide this big outbreak if authorities have had realese information about this disease.

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Few things would stop Chinese people from traveling to spend the Spring Festival over the Lunar New Year, with their families. The Chunyun, which refers to transportation during the festive season, is the largest human migration: last year, Chinese people took more than 400 million trips by train.

But this year, so far, the Wuhan coronavirus has killed 26 and made almost 900 ill. As the Spring Festival arrives on Saturday, Chinese people fear the virus will spread with all these people traveling and gathering. What is making their fear worse is how little useful and accurate information is available, in time, and to differentiate the truth from the fake news.

Wuhan, where the virus first began, is the largest city in central China and an important transportation hub. It is also one of the most populous cities in China, where there are a lot of migrant workers and college students. Now the Wuhan authorities have locked up the city since Thursday morning to stop the virus spreading.

But on Chinese social media, people are expressing their anger: reports in the media show that Wuhan authorities tried to cover up the virus in the first weeks before the situation escalated. The virus was first talked about on the internet at the end of December, but soon the police in Wuhan arrested eight internet users for "spreading rumors." Further reports say that journalists have been warned not to investigate.

Then experts said potential "super-spreaders" had left Wuhan and spread the virus in the days when the information was suppressed.

It reminds people of the SARS outbreak 17 years ago when information was hidden for almost half a year and rumors were rampant. I was in middle school that year. I remember the panic spread in my small town that winter about the "strange disease in the south."

People rushed to the shops to buy Chinese herbal medicine and they boiled vinegar on their stoves, both of which were said to have the power to kill the disease, but which both proved to be useless.

My uncle and his family lived in Beijing but could not visit us in the spring because transportation was strictly limited. The internet was much less accessible, and to my family, living in our small town, it felt like there was a monster approaching us -- but nobody knew what the monster looked like, only knew that it killed.

This time, the government reaction is much quicker and information has been looking more transparent since this week. Local health authorities in Hubei Province are reporting new cases on a daily basis; preventive methods have been upgraded; and experts from state disease control centers talked to media expressing their worries.

The government said China must learn the lesson from 2003. However, strong censorship and a prevailing bureaucracy make many people doubt whether the released figures are real and what the true situation is like.

By suppressing information, it slows down how we can answer necessary questions. What are the effects on the local economy? Experts have confirmed the virus is from a seafood market where wild animals were commonly killed and traded: what kind of punishment will officials face for neglecting supervision and management? Would telling the truth cause a social panic which in many officials' eyes would threaten social stability?

The outbreak also proved how -- when it comes to assessing the quality of information provided -- media literacy is sorely lacking in China after years of suppression and defamation of media and journalists who cared to tell the truth.

Although a few media are on the "front line" reporting the truth, many times more false information is spreading online, which also escalates the fear. Masks are tens of times more expensive than usual. Scared citizens rushed to the market to pick up food on the first day of the city lockdown.

Quick, high-quality, accurate information is scarce, while most state media are turning a disaster into an opportunity for Community Party propaganda, as they do in almost every accident.

Articles in state and party media focusing on calling people to "face difficulties together," praising the doctors and nurses for their sacrifice and courage, and asking people to trust the party and government are more common than the ones investigating the truth and digging up useful information.

On the Xinwen Lianbo daily news program, with its massive audience, the majority of the program is still about leadership, the country's achievements and people cheerfully preparing for Spring Festival, as if the virus does not exist.

I am sure this year people are not going to have a happy and peaceful Spring Festival -- even if it looks like the authorities don't want to ruin the festive atmosphere with too much truthful information. But the human cost is so high.
Karoline Kan is the author of "Under Red Skies: Three Generations of Life, Loss, and Hope in China." She is based in Beijing.

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Chinese people deserve faster, better information about coronavirus

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Few things would stop Chinese people from traveling to spend the Spring Festival over the Lunar New Year, with their families. The Chunyun, which refers to transportation during the festive season, is the largest human migration: last year, Chinese people took more than 400 million trips by train.

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Post #5 Red flag Conformation Bias (Video) 

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Post #5 Red flag Conformation Bias (Video) 

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Definition:
Confirmation bias is where a person tries to find evidence only for things that they already belive.
Connection:
This is a major red flag because a person only proves what he already knows and ignoring the other points that can prove them wrong. These is a red flag because people will try their best and even make other people believe what they do. In this video the person claims that he has seen alien ships, but he doesn’t have any real proof. He has just enough evidence to believe that there is a UFO following him but not enough to prove it to entire human kind.

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Post #6 Red flag Proof by Verbosity ( video) 

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Post #6 Red flag Proof by Verbosity ( video) 

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Defenation:
Proof of verbosity means a claim that has been proved right without enough evidence just because people says so or its very popular.
Connection:
This is a major red flag as it has used by people to earn money which is pseudoscience watch list. In this video there a person who is trying to prove and actually believes that bigfoot is real. He has collected a lot of evidence and it is a very popular belief among north America as no one has questioned this theory.

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Inside one man’s quest to prove Bigfoot exists.

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Post #7 Reason for belief : Agenticity (Video) 

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Post #7 Reason for belief : Agenticity (Video) 

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Defination:
Agenticity means when we assign meanings to invisible agents and believe that they are true.
Connection:
In this video the lady tries to prove that she was abducted by aliens and she also had alien babies “Humaliens”. This is not provable and it comes on pseudoscience watch list that the claim can not be proven and it is all made up.

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The Woman Who Claims She Was Abducted By Aliens | Studio 10

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Post #8 Reason for Belief : Unexplained (Video) 

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Post #8 Reason for Belief : Unexplained (Video) 

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Defination:
Unexplained means we see something but there is no understanding of it yet. and we cannot compleatly explain it yet.
Connection:
In this video they have shown 5 things that are simply not explainable and we do not have complete understanding. These mystries are yet to solve.

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5 Unexplained Mysteries Caught On Camera

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Post #9 Reason for belief: Ideology ( video) 

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Post #9 Reason for belief: Ideology ( video) 

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Defination:
Ideology is set of ideas which are backed up by regious or polotical believes.
Connection:
In this video person believes in heaven and says that he has actually seen it. While he was in coma his subconscious mind took him where he wanted to go and he now believes that god exists and heaven is real. Which are beliefs based on religions.

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I choose to evaluate Agenticity Video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3dgRZPkdAQ
Define the Problem:
Did  aliens really abducted her or she is just making it all up?
Gather information:
This is a video made and aired by studio 10. With all the information she alson mentions that she has 3 kids who are humaliens and pregancy was confirmed by doctors here. But she hasn't provided any of the said proofs.

Evaluate evidence:
There are none. As shown in video when interviewer asks her for evidence or a selfie she says she didn't have any of it. But she experienced the claims for real.

Recognise assomptions, emotions, biases:
In this video that lady is super bias about her kids and all of her claimed experience. She has no evidence for her claims but she is very emotional for her kids and doesn't say much about any evidence being present.

Identify alternatives:
Alternative 1: we don't ask for proof and believe what she does and don't try to extend our knowledge about another speices.
Alternative 2: we try to go to the bottom of her mind and gather as much information as possible about her experience and try to make sense of posibility of another universe.

Select best alternative:
I chose we should not believe whatever she says and try to get more information.