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      <title>Paranormal and Psuedoscience - What We have learnt  by Mahnoor Imtiaz</title>
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      <description>Red Flags And Reasons For Belief</description>
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      <pubDate>2018-10-03 23:25:38 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Post #5: Appeal to Authority</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div>When someone exploits their own or someone else's official title or high standing the society to support their own claim instead of supporting with factual evidence.Most of the time these "authoritative" figures have no relevant qualification to support these claims.<br>The picture attached shows that since many people respect and admire Oprah her name and status can be used to convince people something is true even though it might not be.</div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2018-10-04 02:10:17 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Post #4: Confusion of Correlation with Causation</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div>This occurs when people mistake two things happening simultaneously or one right after the other for being related by the cause and effect relationship.<br>Below is a comic which illustrates that the difference between correlation between two things and causation between two things</div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2018-10-04 02:34:55 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Post #3: Red Herrings</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div>When someone distracts you by throwing irrelevant information at you instead of adressing the matter at hand.<br>Below is an example of how a political candidate takes attention away from the question that was originally asked by saying something that people want to hear </div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2018-10-04 02:53:31 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Post #6: Confirmation Bias</title>
         <author>mimtiaz3</author>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div>Sometimes we tend to ignore the facts of a situation when they might disprove our beliefs and only listen to or focus on what does support our own ideology and beliefs.<br><br>This picture demostrates that even though there might be something very clear in front of us however we interpret as how we want to and not actually see it for what it really is.</div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2018-10-04 03:00:38 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Post #9: Patternicity</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div>This reason for belief can be defined as the inclination of humans to perceive familiar looking patterns as the actual object itself and think of it as a sign or that it holds some significance even though that is not the case.<br>Here it is shown how some muslims may think that this fruit had the ALLAH written in arabic which means God just because there is similar looking discolouration to how ALLAH is spelled in arabic. <br><br></div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2018-10-04 03:22:05 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Post #2: Proof by Verbosity</title>
         <author>mimtiaz3</author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/mimtiaz3/fcvwsee0hyy5/wish/288952280</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<div>A overload of information that can be both irrelevant and relevant is a red flag since it takes attention away from what really matters and makes it difficult to address<br><br>The picture attached demonstrates that there is so much information it becomes difficult to comprehend it all and argue with.</div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2018-10-04 03:33:27 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Post #7: Agenticity</title>
         <author>mimtiaz3</author>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div>Believing that events and situations occur due to higher or superior powers at play is the reason for belief <strong>Agenticity.<br><br></strong>For example,alot of people make peace with good and bad things happening to them in their lives because they believ it was God's will and part of his plan for them</div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2018-10-04 03:46:35 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Post #8: Unexplained</title>
         <author>mimtiaz3</author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/mimtiaz3/fcvwsee0hyy5/wish/288954632</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<div>This reason for belief is that there are something in the world that are above human comprehension so we can't really explain them.</div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2018-10-04 03:53:10 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Post #1: Assignment 1</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div>Made by Mahnoor Imtiaz And Rebekkah Sparrow, working together.<br><br></div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2018-10-04 03:56:10 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>post #10 : Critical thinking</title>
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         <pubDate>2018-10-09 00:08:58 UTC</pubDate>
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