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connor5_1 — 2024-10-06 21:20:33 UTC

Pseudoscience Watchlist #1

connor5_1 — 2024-10-06 21:24:28 UTC

A Pseudoscience watchlist item that is well known is "money is often involved" such as fourteen tellers will make you pay money for answers to your questions .

Pseudoscience Watchlist #2

connor5_1 — 2024-10-06 21:29:23 UTC

Use of scientific sounding language that is meaningless is a huge red flag as many people will use huge words that sound important to trick the human brain into believing the source to be true . Many articles about Bigfoot will do this to make the reader think its real .

Pseudoscience Watchlist #3

connor5_1 — 2024-10-06 21:32:24 UTC

Often appeals to emotion . By appealing to emotion many psychics will use this to gain clients . such as telling them they can talk to the dead that is appealing to the emotion of someone's loved one .

Pseudoscience Watchlist # 4

connor5_1 — 2024-10-06 21:35:54 UTC

lastly for the watchlist is that it does not progress . Many articles will lead you on by telling you no facts and just leading with a big headline . an example of that would be "Bigfoot is real " for the title page but then go on to have nothing to prove for that .

Red Flag #1

connor5_1 — 2024-10-06 21:39:36 UTC

Mystical energy red flag . Mystical energy is false energy made up to sound scientific

Red Flag # 2

connor5_1 — 2024-10-06 21:42:03 UTC

Suppression by authority . this red flag apples to those under authority and will use that to relate to them an example for that would be such as , "the government doesn't want you knowing about this product " and they will just be advertising the product by using this red flag .

Red Flag # 3

connor5_1 — 2024-10-06 21:45:53 UTC

Confirmation Bias . this red flag can be very hard to detect when doing research on a topic you already have heard about / know . If you already believe evidence it will affect your research on a topic because you already have bias to what you have personally learnt .

Red Flag # 4

connor5_1 — 2024-10-06 21:48:56 UTC

Proof by verbosity . this will happen when you do to much low quality research and not enough high quality research . You won't have the right sources to do your research correctly

Red Flag # 5

connor5_1 — 2024-10-06 21:52:53 UTC

Red herring . This is something that misleads or distracts you intentionally . it will tell you want the author wants you to believe and will sway you away from important questions you might have .

Reasons for belief #1

connor5_1 — 2024-10-06 21:58:24 UTC

Emotional connection . A huge reason for many to believe in supernatural is due to many being connected emotionally and seeking answers that would be their reason for belief

Reasons for belief #2

connor5_1 — 2024-10-06 22:01:20 UTC

Unexplained . People will fall on this reason to believe due to information not being able to explain what they witnessed therefor leaving it unexplained and no logical answer .

Reasons for belief #3

connor5_1 — 2024-10-06 22:09:16 UTC

Simplicity . People will believe theory's just because they are easy to under so your brain settles for the easy answer .