Post #1 Title - Assignment 1 by Jessica

Post #2 Red Flags: Ancient Wisdom

jessicaskillen20 — 2017-10-17 14:39:19 UTC

Definition: Commonly seen attached to alternative  ancient wisdom included the theory the earth is round, medical therapies.

Connection: The video demonstrates that the earth is in fact round by showing different examples that prove that the earth is not flat. One of the examples prove that the earth is round by demonstrating that if you stand on a sea shore and try to watch a boat sail away that you will no longer be able to see it due to the horizon, which proves the earth is round.

Post #3 Red Flags: Red Herring

jessicaskillen20 — 2017-10-17 15:08:33 UTC

Definition: Irrelevant information that distracts without addressing facts. Lots of people in our day to day lives for example when you go shopping and your trying to find something at store and none of the employees can help you find what your looking for they will try and give you irrelevant information to distract you in another direction, this video i provided shows basic red herring example perfectly.

Connection:
The family guy video demonstrates Red herring as one of the characters Norm asks Mayor Adam West if elected would he change the frequency of garbage pick up, Mayor Adam west demonstrates red herring as he answers Norms question by stating questions instead of answers.

Post #4 Red Flags: Mystical Energy

jessicaskillen20 — 2017-10-17 15:22:22 UTC

Definition: "Mystical Energy, the scientific word “energy” is a measurement of something’s ability to perform work, spiritualists use the word differently, usage doesn’t make sense when talking about energy fields – the term is meaningless, some feel that they're being guided by a higher intelligence or power."

Connection:
The video demonstrates the connection with mystic energy and healing illness using hand signals, and using different talking and coping methods.

Post #5 Red Flags: Suppression by Authorities

jessicaskillen20 — 2017-10-17 15:46:17 UTC

Definition: : "Usually a frail excuse for why scientists don’t take their claim seriously, example
scientific magazines won’t publish their article on why their medical product works due to a conspiracy of the mainstream establishment of medicine because it’s in the interests of the medical industry to keep you sick."

Connection: The video demonstrates Suppression by Authorities really well it shows how certain inventions and people who have accidently came up with these inventions, some are either something so obscene that it could be used in our daily lives today or The video shows the distinct proof of suppression by Authorities taking over these life changing inventions such as turning water into fuel and throws them out, some inventions are so great that it ends them up being dead or worse.

Post #6 Red Flags: Confirmation bias:

jessicaskillen20 — 2017-10-17 18:26:06 UTC

Definition: "we remember events that coincide with our beliefs and don’t take notice of events that don’t coincide with our beliefs – example: a psychic fortune teller makes 200 probing guesses and only 10 are correct – but you remember the 10 correct guesses."

Connection:
The video demonstrates Confirmation Bias by doing an experiment by asking a bunch of people if they think the two white socks they presented were different and everyone that participated in the experiment confirmed that both the socks were different when they were the same. Which concluded a confirmation bias example.

Post #7 Reason for Belief: Ideology

jessicaskillen20 — 2017-10-17 18:36:32 UTC

Definition: a set of ideas, that make up goals, expectations ethics, morals and actions. A good example of this would be visionary, systematic body of concept, human life, culture, a manner or the content of thinking,
characteristics of an individual group. an example of this would be, political parties, economics, health care, and political freedom.

Connection:
The image demonstrates ideology by showing human life, morals and action, characteristics of an individual group and political freedom
the picture shows the boy or girl praying for education or better education while the political government is not allowing it and allowing war.

Post #8 Reason for Belief: Unexplained

jessicaskillen20 — 2017-10-17 19:05:13 UTC

Definition:
The Unknown, the conspiracy, where these things come from, and the why aren't there any reason to all these unexplained answers and questions such as Do Aliens exist? Are their other forms of life? these are the unknown.

Connection:
The Image demonstrates the typical thought perception of what an alien or something that's not from this earth would look like. A perfect example of the Unexplained. Nobody really knows what they look like and if they really are real. That's why they call it the unexplained.

Post #9 Reason for Belief: Emotional Connection

jessicaskillen20 — 2017-10-17 19:12:30 UTC

Definition:
Emotional Connection, the need to be communicated validating some sort of good bye or grieving technique.

Connection:
The video demonstrates Theresa Caputo giving out reading session to help people get over their lost ones. Weather or not it is real or not its a way of being communicating and a way to help with grieving