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The problem that I think is the biggest with confirmation bias is social media. I feel this way because most if not all people over the ages of 13 have at least one social media account. When your on your social media account you will follow whatever peaks your interests. So when there is something going on in the world that a lot of people are talking about and you got to your social media account to see what everyone is saying you are only going to get one side of what is going on any only the opinions of that one side. If there was something that you say that was out of the norm from the rest of the posts you have seen and you don't like it or you think that this account is wrong because everyone else is saying one thing and this is saying another you are able to just unfollow or block that account. This relates to confirmation bias because when you are able to do this you are going to get confirmation bias to whatever side you are on for that topic/subject.

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Giovanni Luca Ciampaglia, Filippo Menczer, The Conversation US

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Biases Make People Vulnerable to Misinformation Spread by Social Media

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Researchers have developed tools to study the cognitive, societal and algorithmic biases that help fake news spread

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Jack Fissenden

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On this website there are some graphs and charts showing the amount of news that people are receiving from social media. When people are on their social media accounts they will follow whatever their interest are and so when they are following certain news accounts that news account will show a lot of their news from one side. So when people are only seeing these things from one side they will get a set of beliefs for a group of people or individual that my be good or bad. This relates to ideology support because the people that get a lot of their news from their social media are learning a new set of beliefs on a group of people or an individual if they are only following a certain kind of news account.

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Pew Research Center's Journalism Project

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The advent of social media has opened up new ways for people with similar interests to find, share and talk about news - including news about politics - with friends and colleagues.

Facebook is now a widely-used source for news about government and politics. Nearly half (48%) of the panelists say they accessed news about politics and government on Facebook in the past week, about as many as got news about these topics from local TV (49%). (Note that this survey is representative of the 89% of Americans who have access to the internet. Based on the full population, somewhat fewer-39%-get news from Facebook in a typical week.)

As a platform that links to content from many different sources, Facebook draws about twice as many political news consumers among web users as the aggregation sites Yahoo News (24% in the past week) or Google News (22%). And Facebook far surpasses other social media sites, such as YouTube and Twitter, as a source for news about politics and government. Just 14% say they got political news in the past week from YouTube, 9% from Twitter, 6% from Google Plus and 3% from LinkedIn.

In part, this stems from Facebook's broad reach; it is by far the largest social media platform. Fully 77% of web panelists use Facebook. That compares with 63% who use YouTube and much smaller shares who use Twitter (21%), Google Plus (24%) or LinkedIn (25%).

But even holding its more widespread use constant, a greater portion of Facebook's audience gets political news there than is true for other social networks - 62%. That compares with 40% of all Twitter users, about a quarter of those on YouTube (22%) or Google Plus (25%) and just 12% of LinkedIn users .

As Pew Research found in a 2013 study of the role of news on Facebook, not all of these users are specifically seeking out political news when they log on to the site, but they nonetheless come across it in the mix of posts shared by those in their feed.

One unique feature of social media is how the political news you see is impacted by your choice of friends and your past behavior on the site. Each individual sees a different mix of content, depending on who is in his or her feed, as well as the kinds of posts he or she has responded to in the past. So when it comes to politics, a common question to ask is the degree to which people create circles of friends that reflect their own ideological views. The evidence suggests that while nearly all users get a mix of views, those with stronger ideological tendencies are more likely to surround themselves with like-minded opinions.

Overall, consistent conservatives are somewhat less likely than consistent liberals to get government and political news on Facebook or Twitter, primarily because they are somewhat less likely to use the sites in the first place. About half (49%) of consistent liberals (and a similar share of those with mixed ideological views) say they got news about government and politics in the past week from Facebook, compared with 40% of consistent conservatives. And while 13% of consistent liberals say they got political news on Twitter in the past week, just 5% of consistent conservatives (and 8% of groups in between) say the same.

The data also find that those who use social networking sites for news about government and politics are also getting this news through other channels at the same time. Respondents who got political news on at least one social networking site in the past week got such news from an average of 4.8 other news sources as well ( out of the list of 37 asked about), similar to their peers who don't learn about politics through social networks. (For further evidence of this phenomenon, see 2013 Facebook and News report.)

Looking Deeper at Facebook Habits by Ideology

At the same time that consistent conservatives are less likely to use Facebook than other groups, those who do use it are highly engaged with political news. Two-thirds of consistent conservatives who see political posts on Facebook pay "a lot" of (19%) or "some" attention (47%) to those posts. Similarly, six-in-ten consistent liberals who see political posts on Facebook pay "a lot" of (14%) or "some" (46%) attention.

But as with interest in political news from traditional media sources, there is a "U-shaped" pattern in how ideological groups engage with political news on Facebook. Smaller shares of those who are less ideologically consistent pay attention to Facebook posts about government and politics than those with stronger ideological ties. These middle groups are about half as likely to pay a lot of attention to political posts.

Overall, those who see posts about politics on Facebook are exposed to a variety of views. Only about a quarter of those who pay attention to these posts say the posts they see are nearly always (2%) or mostly (21%) in line with their own political views. A 62% majority of these users see political content in line with their views "some of the time," while just 13% say they see such posts "not too often."

But consistent conservatives and, to a lesser extent, consistent liberals are much more likely to be exposed to views similar to their own. Among those who pay attention to posts about politics, nearly half of consistent conservatives (47%) say the opinions they see are mostly or always in line with their own views; among consistent liberals, about one-in-three (32%) say the same.

Among mostly conservative Facebook users who pay attention to political posts, 28% say the posts they see are always or mostly in line with their own political views. Those with mostly liberal views (13%) and mixed ideological views (17%) are the least likely to see like-minded posts about politics.

And how do different groups respond to political views with which they disagree? About one-in-four (26%) Facebook users have hidden, blocked, defriended or stopped following someone on a social networking site based on disagreements over political posts. While consistent conservatives are the most likely to see Facebook posts in line with their political views, consistent liberals are the most likely to block others on social networking sites because they disagree with their content.

More than four-in-ten consistent liberals who use Facebook (44%) say they have blocked someone on a social networking site because of a political post. Consistent conservatives are less likely to have done this (31%), as are those with more mixed ideological views (about two-in-ten).

Beyond personal friends and colleagues, what kinds of groups and organizations do these news consumers on Facebook follow? Among those who pay at least some attention to politics on Facebook, about three-in-ten (29%) "like" or otherwise follow political parties, candidates or elected officials. A somewhat greater share of users follows news organizations, reporters or commentators (36%), and about four-in-ten (41%) follow issue-based groups on Facebook.

Of those paying attention to political posts, the two most ideologically consistent groups are about twice as likely as those with mixed views to follow political parties, candidates or elected officials. About half of consistent conservatives (49%) and 42% of consistent liberals "like" or follow parties, candidates or officials, compared with three-in-ten or fewer of those with more mixed ideologies.

Consistent liberals on Facebook are the ideological group most likely to follow issue-based organizations: 60% of those who pay some attention to political posts follow such a group, compared with 46% of consistent conservatives.

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Section 2: Social Media, Political News and Ideology

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The advent of social media has opened up new ways for people with similar interests to find, share and talk about news - including news about politics - with friends and colleagues. Facebook is now a widely-used source for news about government and politics.

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An ideology is a set of opinions or beliefs of a group or an individual.

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In this article it talks about how scientists don't like to speak out on some of this issues that are going on in our world. One of the reasons why is because if the scientists is wrong about what they say s happening and the general public finds out they were and finds out who the scientist is they could lash out at them. This relates to suppression by authority because the scientist are being paid to find out what is happening in their field of study and if they are afraid to publicize their information then they are doing a disservice and they are wasting money.

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Intellectual suppression: why environmental scientists are afraid to speak out, by Brian Martin

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Intellectual suppression: why environmental scientists are afraid to speak out, an article by Brian Martin published in Habitat Australia, 1992

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When someone of high authority hides something that don't want the public to see.

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This website is about the Blair Witch Project. the Blair Witch Project is a story about some people going missing in a forest. The were stories about a witch that haunted the forest and that is why the three people got lost in the forest. This relates to mythical energy because people said that the witch that haunted the forest had magical powers. Something that the witch was able to do was to make it impossible for the people to find their way back out of the forest and that is why they went missing.

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The Blair Witch Project has a lot to answer for; it terrified me when I was growing up, started the irritating found footage craze in Hollywood and may have cursed its stars' careers.
Way back when, in the black and white days of 1999, The Blair Witch was a phenomenon and people flocked to the cinema to see the tale of three lost souls who went off into the Black Hills in search of the legendary Blair Witch.

To promote the film director Eduardo Sanchez used the internet (you may have heard of it) to set up a fake narrative that the movie was actually genuine footage and that the witch was in fact real.

And despite the fact that witches aren't real (sorry wiccans) people believed it. Interestingly though, while the witch is about as authentic as an average episode of Geordie Shore the movie's cast have all suffered a strange 'curse' since starring in the cult phenomenon.

The film's three leads Heather Donahue, Michael C. Williams and Joshua Leonard all feel that rather than being the star making role it should've been the film adversely affected their careers.

Donahue - who went on to win a Razzie for her performance - believes that audiences disliked a driven woman who kept the camera rolling despite what happened while not wearing makeup.

Unfortunately for Donahue it seems that Sanchez's desperation for realism, including depriving the cast of knowledge and staging actual scares in the woods, worked too well.

People genuinely believed the cast were dead, so much so that Donahue's mum received letters of condolence, while Leonard's got phone calls asking about his health.

But when audiences found out the actors were very much alive, surprisingly they were more annoyed than relieved and turned on the cast.

Donahue felt the worst of the outrage.
She said:

It's very hard for me to talk about the backlash because for me it was so directly personal.

It was my mother getting sympathy cards, it was people coming up to me on the street telling me that they wished I was dead, saying they want their money back.

It was me in my 84 Toyota Celica breaking down in LA in La Cienega underneath a billboard with my own face on it. It was a profoundly surreal experience.

The pressure got so much that Donahue eventually stopped acting and went into a somewhat different career, farming. Guess her life went to pot after all...

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The True Story Of The Curse Of The Blair Witch Project

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The Blair Witch Project has a lot to answer for; it terrified me when I was growing up, started the irritating found footage craze in Hollywood and may have cursed its stars' careers.

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Things that are mystical are magical or mysterious, possibly having to do with the supernatural.

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In this video Bill Nye is arguing with Tucker Carlson about global warming. In this video you can clearly tell that Tucker is not as well informed on the subject as Bill Nye is. This relates to proof by verbosity because Bill Nye is a scientists and is very knowledgeable in this topic where as Tucker has probably just done some quick research and thought that he would be prepared to debate with Bill Nye on this subject.

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Proof by verbosity is an argument that is too complicated for an opponent to reasonably address all the particulars of whatever they are arguing about.

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In this video Barack Obama and Mitt Romney both use red herring when they are asked about the guns laws in their country. This is an example of red herring because when they were asked about this question they both redirected the question and brought up another issue that was a much easier problem to solve.

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Red Herring Fallacy-Second Obama-Romney Debate

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Attempting to redirect the argument to another issue to which the person doing the redirecting can better respond.

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In this article it talks about how social media is feeding confirmation bias. They talk about the election when Trump won and how on social media you hear more confirmation bias than dissent. And when you do hear dissent most people just block that person or think that it is just an anomaly. This is good example because most of the people that are between the ages of 13-35 have at least one social media account were they are able to see all of this information that is being spread around.

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The tendency to interpret new evidence as confirmation of one's existing beliefs or theories.

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This is a website for "Detoxification: Modern Knowledge and Ancient Wisdom". This is a website that has recipes for ancient Chinese medicine that helps keep the negative impact of chemical on your body. This relates to ancient wisdom because they are using the same theory that they used a long time ago and it incorporates the five elements which are Metal, Fire, Wood, Water, and Earth. With the use of this medicine it is suppose to help your body have proper flow and bio-transformation with all of the organs in your body to ensure good health

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Detoxification is any process that decreases the negative impact of chemicals or molecules on the body, involving biotransformation of these toxic substances into excretable forms. Although this process has been a focus of recent scientific research, the idea of detoxification parallels the idea of proper flow or xin chen dai xie in Traditional Chinese Medicine.

The Five Elements constitute the basis of Chinese medical theory on the idea of proper flow or biotransformation among all collaborative organs to ensure optimal health. The five elements are Metal, Water, Wood, Fire, and Earth.

Metal represents the lungs in Chinese Medicine. Having optimal exchanges and flow of fresh air with deep breathing exercises is an important part of any detoxification program. Ancient texts suggest that upon rising is the best time for breathing exercises such as Tai-Chi, meditation, yoga, or any form of light exercise.

Water corresponds to our kidneys. Hydration is extremely important in detoxification. In fact, our kidneys are designed to handle roughly 180 liters of fluids a day, filter the blood about 60 times daily, and remove wastes through urination. In addition to drinking more purified water, naturopathic traditions offer simple home-based hydrotherapies such as sitz baths and contrast showers to gently enhance the flow through our kidneys.

Wood is related to the liver - our biggest internal organ of detoxification. The biotransformation in the liver is mediated by two closely related steps identified by researchers as Phase I and Phase II. Phase I converts toxic substances into more reactive forms before Phase II neutralizes and makes them more soluble for excretion. Proper functioning of both phases is essential because the metabolites produced during Phase I may actually be more toxic than the original substance; therefore, the two phases must be in balance to ensure complete detoxification without serious side effects or potential interactions with your medications or supplements. Specific nutrients and phytochemicals may be recommended by your naturopathic physician to appropriately support either or both phasesof this delicate system, depending on your health situation.

Fire symbolizes the heart. In Chinese Medicine, the heart not only circulates the blood, but also anchors the Mind or Shen and - interestingly - controls sweating, too. Regular exercise induces optimal blood flow, robust mental health, and of course sweating. Our skin is actually the biggest organ of elimination that we have! In addition to exercise, some form of mental or emotional reflection is encouraged during detoxification to facilitate the well-documented Mind/Body connection.

Earth represents the digestive tract. In addition to maintaining regular daily bowel movements and balanced nutrition, your naturopathic doctor may prescribe specific dietary recommendations during the detoxification program relevant to your specific health situation.

Dr. Danny Jui is a naturopathic physician with additional certifications in acupuncture and Integrative Medicine.

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Detoxification: Modern Knowledge and Ancient Wisdom | Choices Markets

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Detoxification is any process that decreases the negative impact of chemicals or molecules on the body, involving biotransformation of these toxic substances into excretable forms. Although this process has been a focus of recent scientific research, the idea of detoxification parallels the idea of proper flow or xin chen dai xie in Traditional Chinese Medicine.

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Pre-Christian knowledge, philosophy, and beliefs

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This tweet is an example of appeal to authority. Donald Trump has the most power in America and has millions of people that look up to him and also trust him. When he says stuff like this a lot of his followers that trust him will believe this statement that is untrue. Donald Trump uses a lot of mind games to manipulate American citizens and this is an example of that.

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Appeal to authority is when something is believed to be true because someone of authority has said it.

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Post #10 Critical Thinking: Confirmation Bias

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Post #10 Critical Thinking: Confirmation Bias

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Post #9 Red Flag: Ideological Support (website)

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Post #9 Red Flag: Ideological Support (website)

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Post #8 Red Flag: Suppression by Authorities (article)

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Post #8 Red Flag: Suppression by Authorities (article)

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Post #7 Red Flag: Mythical Energy (website)

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Post #7 Red Flag: Mythical Energy (website)

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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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Post #4 Red Flag: Confirmation Bias (Article)

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Post #4 Red Flag: Confirmation Bias (Article)

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Post #3 Red Flag: Ancient Wisdom (Website)

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Post #3 Red Flag: Ancient Wisdom (Website)

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Post #2 Red Flag: Appeal to Authority (tweet) 

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Post #2 Red Flag: Appeal to Authority (tweet) 