https://padlet.com/Alorah/World_Mysteries_Assignment_1 en-us 2017-10-13 23:44:07 UTC 2023-02-08 07:24:53 UTC hello@padlet.com Alorah https://padlet.com/Alorah/World_Mysteries_Assignment_1/wish/196986237 Alorah Abell, working individually]]> 2017-10-13 23:48:53 UTC https://padlet.com/Alorah/World_Mysteries_Assignment_1/wish/196986237 Alorah https://padlet.com/Alorah/World_Mysteries_Assignment_1/wish/196986686 Definition: Appeal to Authority is using a respected profession/image/celebrity in media to gain peoples trust in a product, belief, religion, opinion, etc...

Connection: Appeal to Authority can be as minor as a celebrity endorsing shoes or energy drinks. Mind you, Appeal to Authority can become dangerous when it is used to entice people to buy products using supposed "Doctors" or health care professionals (actors pretending to be such). False advertising is dangerous and, in some cases, illegal.

This commercial of Colgate Toothpaste is a typical example of Appeal to Authority. A "dentist" is recommending Colgate to the audience along with anecdotes from women who supposedly use the product. 

FUN FACT: People started abandoning Colgate Total because they discovered it contained triclosan, a chemical that can disrupt hormones in fetuses and animals with the right dosage. It is not harmful to humans, in this case, since it's not a high enough dosage. 

]]> 2017-10-13 23:59:34 UTC https://padlet.com/Alorah/World_Mysteries_Assignment_1/wish/196986686 Alorah https://padlet.com/Alorah/World_Mysteries_Assignment_1/wish/196988111 Definition: Confirmation Bias is when you only pay attention to what corresponds with your beliefs and opinions.

Connection: When doing research, a person will typically search for a source that agrees with their beliefs. For example, a person will most likely only look for sources proving climate change is real because that is what they believe and they want that side proven. Confirmation Bias isn't limited to research, mind you. It also applies to socializing. First impressions of people can also become confirmation biases. Ex: you go on a blind date and it turns out the person is very attractive. You will most likely try to take notice of only the good things about them, instead of realizing they are shallow and rude. Your mind wants to believe they are a good match so it will create that image and possibly interpret their intentions differently.]]> 2017-10-14 00:37:10 UTC https://padlet.com/Alorah/World_Mysteries_Assignment_1/wish/196988111 Alorah https://padlet.com/Alorah/World_Mysteries_Assignment_1/wish/197069729 Definition: a supposed energy (unrelated to the scientific usage of the word) that people believe to be from a "higher power" or an "aura". In reality, the word "energy" is a scientific measurement of work performance ability.

Connection: Have you ever felt a "negative energy" in a room after a fight, or meeting a person that's in a bad mood? This is an example of a "Mystical Energy". That negative energy that people feel is nothing more than a psychological analysis of the situation. Your mind is processing the scenario and enabling you to "feel" what the other's in the room are expressing. Other examples include powers that people claim to have like : clairvoyance, precognition, shamanism, Zodiac physiology, mediums, etc... These are all Mystical Energies that people claim to feel/sense. People who claim to have these powers often charge outrageous prices for people to speak with the dead, receive information about their career paths, information about their zodiac signs, and their issues with love finding. 

The following is a website of a Psychic group, called Fate Finders. The video included on the site's front page is a Tarot card reading of a woman's career path. Personally, I am supposed to be a Pisces and I felt that I matched his descriptions better than the woman. The woman he was reading for is a Cancer. The website itself offers several different reading options such as: Mediums, Love Readings, Numerology, Tarot Card Readings, Clairvoyants, and more.]]> 2017-10-15 00:38:38 UTC https://padlet.com/Alorah/World_Mysteries_Assignment_1/wish/197069729 Alorah https://padlet.com/Alorah/World_Mysteries_Assignment_1/wish/197072424 Definition: (Also commonly known as conspiracy theories) Suppression by Authorities are the conspiracies created by people that believe the government or large companies are hiding things like aliens or depriving people of cures for diseases for their own benefit.

Connection: Suppressed by Authorities is commonly explained through the conspiracy that medical companies are suppressing the cure for cancer because they would lose out monetarily. Another example of this would be Climate Change and the argument that it's false or it's not a man-made occurrence - that the government and scientists are withholding information so they can continue receiving funding for other projects. 

The following video briefly explores both sides of the conspiracy of climate change.]]> 2017-10-15 01:45:15 UTC https://padlet.com/Alorah/World_Mysteries_Assignment_1/wish/197072424 Alorah https://padlet.com/Alorah/World_Mysteries_Assignment_1/wish/197072746 Definition: "Causes that use courts, marches, campaigns, and so on to push a belief may be fueled more by ideology than by science." - defaithed.com article Here Be Dragons.

Very often, ideologies refer to political beliefs or sets of ideas held by certain cultures.

Connection: The Anti-Vaccine movement is a massive example of Ideological Support. There are numerous experiments that prove the positive implications of vaccines and yet a certain community of anti-vaxxers persists in believing there are only negative outcomes from vaccines. The following website contains numerous stories of parents that followed the anti-vaccine movement until they realized how dangerous and impractical it was.]]> 2017-10-15 01:52:07 UTC https://padlet.com/Alorah/World_Mysteries_Assignment_1/wish/197072746 Alorah https://padlet.com/Alorah/World_Mysteries_Assignment_1/wish/197072807 Definition: Science is more complicated to understand than making up your own explanation or believing someone else's words on the subject with no credible research to back it up. It's easier to simply accept it as "magic" or paranormal occurrences.

Connection: Magic tricks are sources of entertainment. Most everyone knows that they are called "tricks" because that's what they are. They're TRICKS. Although it would be easier to believe it is true magic, logically and scientifically it's impossible.]]> 2017-10-15 01:53:46 UTC https://padlet.com/Alorah/World_Mysteries_Assignment_1/wish/197072807 Alorah https://padlet.com/Alorah/World_Mysteries_Assignment_1/wish/197072854 Definition: When science cannot explain an occurrence because there is insufficient evidence OR because that science is unknown yet.

Connection: Science is constantly improving and making discoveries but there are many things science still hasn't discovered. People decide to take it into their own hands and create their own theories of why things happen they way they do OR they create paranormal stories to try to explain an occurrence. There isn't necessarily anything wrong with thinking of possible theories, it's when people with some authority begin teaching it as the science of the occurrence. The following video explores planets that exist, but science doesn't understand why. The way Earth's laws of physics work doesn't seem to apply to these planets and people are wondering why.]]> 2017-10-15 01:55:09 UTC https://padlet.com/Alorah/World_Mysteries_Assignment_1/wish/197072854 Alorah https://padlet.com/Alorah/World_Mysteries_Assignment_1/wish/197072911 Definition: Human emotions can obscure rational thought and it can lead to reckless behaviour.

Connection: As an example, psychics can exploit the elderly or the delusional out of their money because they are emotionally compromised. When someone passes away, for example, many people turn to mediums and psychics to channel their loved ones for a final goodbye or for an answer. "Mediums" and "Psychics" jump on these emotional people and scam their money for years in some cases. This is because the person is so struck with grief they are vulnerable to suggestion. The following video is a case that took place globally and it is uncertain if the psychic "Maria Duval" was even a real person. ]]> 2017-10-15 01:55:55 UTC https://padlet.com/Alorah/World_Mysteries_Assignment_1/wish/197072911 Alorah https://padlet.com/Alorah/World_Mysteries_Assignment_1/wish/197072922 2017-10-15 01:56:22 UTC https://padlet.com/Alorah/World_Mysteries_Assignment_1/wish/197072922