https://padlet.com/alisha_ross/paranormalandpseudoscience en-us 2018-05-25 21:17:46 UTC 2023-05-28 21:27:50 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Planets.png alisha_ross https://padlet.com/alisha_ross/paranormalandpseudoscience/wish/263742476 Created and written by Jessica Chappell and Alisha Ross]]> 2018-05-25 21:51:22 UTC https://padlet.com/alisha_ross/paranormalandpseudoscience/wish/263742476 alisha_ross https://padlet.com/alisha_ross/paranormalandpseudoscience/wish/263743136 Description: To seek meaning from something unexplainable due to our emotions. We will believe in something if it adds more emotional value or meaning to our lives.

Connection: The photo below is of a guardian angel, protecting two young children. This relates to the reason for belief, emotional connection, because guardian angels are not scientifically proven to exist. However, we attach ourselves to the idea of them for our own peace of mind, to make ourselves feel better as we journey through life. ]]> 2018-05-25 21:59:13 UTC https://padlet.com/alisha_ross/paranormalandpseudoscience/wish/263743136 alisha_ross https://padlet.com/alisha_ross/paranormalandpseudoscience/wish/263744026 Description: We create signification out of the sequences and connections we see and hear, based on our own beliefs. Our minds evolve patterns to make these connections.

Connection: Below is a youtube video of a few EVP (electronic voice phenomenon) recordings. This is connected to patternicity because if you are trying hard enough to hear actual voices and words from your recordings, then virtually any sound can meet that expectation. People want to believe in paranormal activity so badly, that they create something out of nothing.]]> 2018-05-25 22:11:46 UTC https://padlet.com/alisha_ross/paranormalandpseudoscience/wish/263744026 alisha_ross https://padlet.com/alisha_ross/paranormalandpseudoscience/wish/263745847 Description: A phenomenon with no current explanation or scientific proof, so we create our own explanation for its reasoning.

Connection: The website below showcases ten different times people blamed unexplainable events on nonsensical ideas. This is in direct correlation with the reason for belief, unexplained, because rather than try and understand scientifically what is going on, we assign unimaginable ideas
 to explain things for us.]]> 2018-05-25 22:45:53 UTC https://padlet.com/alisha_ross/paranormalandpseudoscience/wish/263745847 alisha_ross https://padlet.com/alisha_ross/paranormalandpseudoscience/wish/263747345 Description: Ancient wisdom is the belief that because things were done one way in the past, that it would still be relevant today. Science and humanity have come so far, it would be senseless to believe that just because something was applicable so many years ago, that it would still be useful today.

Connection: The website link below demonstrates the red flag, ancient wisdom, because it delves into the ancient medicinal system from India that promotes healing and living disease free. ]]> 2018-05-25 23:21:01 UTC https://padlet.com/alisha_ross/paranormalandpseudoscience/wish/263747345 alisha_ross https://padlet.com/alisha_ross/paranormalandpseudoscience/wish/263750965 2018-05-26 00:53:05 UTC https://padlet.com/alisha_ross/paranormalandpseudoscience/wish/263750965 alisha_ross https://padlet.com/alisha_ross/paranormalandpseudoscience/wish/263898834 Description: Products that play into someone’s support of political, cultural and/or religious beliefs. People will blindly follow any sort of higher power that they believe in.

Connection: Faith healing is healing achieved by religious belief and prayer, rather than by medical treatment. Below, the youtube video connects to the red flag, ideological support, through Derren Brown exposing the lies of "faith healing", and how people believe these "miracles" are actually happening because of their religious beliefs.]]> 2018-05-27 21:26:17 UTC https://padlet.com/alisha_ross/paranormalandpseudoscience/wish/263898834 alisha_ross https://padlet.com/alisha_ross/paranormalandpseudoscience/wish/263899148 Description: When someone tries to get people to agree with their argument or product by appealing to a supposed authority figure who is not really an expert, but just appears to be. 

Connection: The website attached is connected to the red flag, appeal to authority, through the idea of celebrity endorsements and how misleading they can be. Just because a celebrity is in an advertisement, doesn't mean they have any idea what they are talking about, or the products they are supporting. ]]> 2018-05-27 21:29:35 UTC https://padlet.com/alisha_ross/paranormalandpseudoscience/wish/263899148 alisha_ross https://padlet.com/alisha_ross/paranormalandpseudoscience/wish/263899209 Description: Using specific terms to make products appear to be used with ingredients that are from nature that are not artificially made. The idea that because it is natural, that it is good for you and will help you.

Connection: The picture below is connected to the all natural red flag because it's a stamp of approval that literally means nothing. Any company and any product can claim it is "all natural", without having any sources or proof to back it up. ]]> 2018-05-27 21:30:23 UTC https://padlet.com/alisha_ross/paranormalandpseudoscience/wish/263899209 alisha_ross https://padlet.com/alisha_ross/paranormalandpseudoscience/wish/263899275 Description: Using imaginative and whimsical descriptions to create and support ideas. Taking words like “energy” and using them in a different way to contort the users’ way of thinking. 

Connection: The concept of circulation of energy is the primary principle of traditional Chinese medicine. Below is a picture featuring the different "channels of energy" in the body, used for this type of healing. It is connected to the red flag, mystical energy, because in science there is no way to measure this type of energy in the body.]]> 2018-05-27 21:31:06 UTC https://padlet.com/alisha_ross/paranormalandpseudoscience/wish/263899275