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By Carter DeCurtis

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Appeal to authority is when people get scientists or celebrities to endorse a service, medicine or product. Getting someone in a type of power or authority like this will make people believe in whatever they are trying to sell.

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Here is a classic example of Appeal to Authority. Pepsi hired Kendall Jenner, who is one of the widely known Kardashian's, to promote their company. In this ad, the message that they are attempting to convey is that if you buy a Pepsi, it will result in world peace.

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Confirmation Bias is essentially when somebody only believes in what they want to hear. That person would also tend to ignore the facts.

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This cartoon is an example of Confirmation Bias. The triangles say that "Squares are Always Blue", but they completely ignore the facts, which are all the other squares that are different colours.

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Ancient Wisdom is mainly different types of healing and/or medical techniques, teachings and theories that were created before modern science and technology. Almost all of this ancient wisdom is proven to be useless in the modern day.

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This is a link to the Flat Earth Society's Website. This is one of the biggest examples of Ancient Wisdom. The Flat Earth theory was created before we had modern technology that would prove the Earth was in fact round.

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The Flat Earth Society mans the guns against oppression of thought and the Globularist lies of a new age. Standing with reason we offer a home to those wayward thinkers that march bravely on with REASON and TRUTH in recognizing the TRUE shape of the Earth - Flat.

Come join us in our forums and get started learning about the greatest lie ever told.

History of the Flat Earth Society

The modern age of the Flat Earth Society dates back to the early 1800s, when it was founded by Samuel Birley Rowbotham, an English inventor. Samuel Rowbotham's Flat Earth views were based largely on literal interpretation of Bible passages. His system, called Zetetic Astronomy, held that the earth is a flat disk centered at the North Pole and bounded along its 'southern' edge by a wall of ice, with the sun, moon, planets, and stars only a few hundred miles above the surface of the earth. After Rowbotham's death in 1884, followers of his Zetetic Astronomy founded the Universal Zetetic Society.

Flat Earth theory spread to the United States, largely in the town of Zion, Illinois where Christian Catholic Apostolic Church founder John Alexander Dowie and later Wilbur Glenn Voliva promoted Flat Earth theory. Voliva died in 1942 and the church quickly disintegrated. Flat Earthism remained in Zion, gradually becoming less popular into the 1950s.

The International Flat Earth Society was formally founded in 1956 by Samuel Shenton, a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society and the Royal Geographic Society. Shenton died in 1971 and Charles K. Johnson became president of the International Flat Earth Society. Johnson actively and charistmatically promoted the Society and, over time, its membership increased to over 3,000. His wife Marjory took an active role in the Society as well, often contributing articles to the Flat Earth Society Newsletter.

In 1995, a fire destroyed the Johnson's home as well as all of the Flat Earth Society's library, archives and membership lists. Following a long period of poor health, Charles K. Johnson's wife Marjory Johnson passed away in 1996. He vowed to rebuild the society. Sadly, Charles K. Johnson passed away in 2001 at the age of 76, leaving the Society's future uncertain.

After several years of inactivity, the Flat Earth Society was resurrected in 2004 and remains active today at theflatearthsociety.org. The Society officially reopened to new members on 30th October 2009.

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The Flat Earth Society mans the guns against oppression of thought and the Globularist lies of a new age. Standing with reason we offer a home to those wayward thinkers that march bravely on with REASON and TRUTH in recognizing the TRUE shape of the Earth - Flat.

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Proof by Verbosity is when someone gives out so much useless information, that it seems like they actual know what they are talking about.

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In this painful video, Donald Trump is asked about jobs. His answer completely spirals off into a completely different direction, and ends up rambling for 3 minutes. He rambled in order to make it look like he knew what he was talking about. This is Proof By Verbosity at it's finest.

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A Red Herring is a bunch of irrelevant information that distracts from the actual answer.

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In this clip from Family Guy, Mort asks the Mayor a question, and the Mayor responds with a bunch of unrelated nonsense which impresses everybody in the crowd. This is a perfect example of a Red Herring.

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Red Herring Fallacy example - Family Guy

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When something is unexplained, it means that it can't be solved through science or logic. For example, ghosts would be considered unexplained.

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This video would be considered an example of the Unexplained. This easily could be fake, but it is still terrifying.

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Patternicity is when people see things that might not necessarily be there.  For example, seeing the shape of a face in a tree, seeing the hand of god in a cloud, etc.

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This article is a giant case of Patternicity. All of these people have claimed that they have seen Jesus in their food.

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He may have been crucified 2,013 years ago today (ish), but when you scarf potato chips, he's watching.

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Emotional Connection is when somebody wants something to be true so badly, that they believe in it. For example, someone paying a psychic their life savings to communicate with a dead relative.

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This situation is similar to the example I gave above. A "psychic" that took advantage of vulnerable people for personal gain.

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A family of fortune tellers obsessed with living large preyed on innocent victims, reports CNBC's Andrea Day.