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      <title>Assignment#1 5 Red Flags &amp; 3 Reasons of belief by Maharshi K Desai</title>
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      <description>A lie repeated often enough becomes the truth....
-G. Goebbles </description>
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      <pubDate>2017-02-13 18:15:40 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Appeal to authority. (Red Flag) </title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div>Use of professional equipment, like wearing a lab coat and instead of proving a false statement one tries to give it true meaning, in turn manipulating or deceiving anyone away from the reality. <br><strong>The link shows</strong> scenarios of appeal to authority, and explains the real reason behind the cause.</div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2017-02-13 18:23:42 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Confirmation Bias (Red Flag)</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div>It happens to people who are under stress, when they seek help from someone wrong like a psychic. <br>That's when it happens.<br>A habitual instinct in humans, to pay attention and accept one positive comment and to ignore the rest, often resulting into their financial, mental, psychological or physical damage.<br><strong>The link shows</strong> how the innocence of human mind, leaning more toward positive and less towards negative is exploited fraud psychics. </div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2017-02-13 18:29:24 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Red Herring (Red Flag)</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div>Delaying or preventing one from finding or discovering the truth by introducing a misleading or distracting information.<br>Red herrings, in reality are very common examples, like when a murderer tries to falsify his/her own appearance, leaves misleading clues and dead ends for detectives, psychics when caught on making wrong predictions to figure their way out provide false clues to the helpless victims. <br><strong>The link shows</strong>, the positive and negative attributes of Red Herrings.<br>Strongly used in movies, dramas, anime etc..</div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2017-02-13 18:37:21 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Proof by verbosity. (Red Flag)</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div><em>The most basic definition will be Quantity over quality. </em><br>When one is looking for a definite single sentence of reality, but their reach is cut short by introducing tons of false claims making that person accept that instead of what they wanted, because the data provided was complicated yet well organised enough to be accepted as true<br><strong>This link shows </strong>a famous skeptic's article on how pharmaceutical companies use this Red flag for their drug approval.</div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2017-02-13 18:45:59 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>All natural. (Red Flag)</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div>A nonsensical ideology, wrongly understood and commonly used by lots of people. <br>Ones misconception of something being natural to it being healthy. <br>This false and hazardous understanding of natural product needs to be stopped as soon as possible as it can cause health damage to huge amount of population who are unaware of what the term natural means. <br><strong>The link shows</strong> what kinds of "NATURAL" things written on dietary supplements leads to people buying them.  </div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2017-02-13 18:54:56 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Patternicity (Reasons for belief)</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div>It is the mental instinct and habit of human nature to find patterns, faces, shapes, faces in stationary objects like stones and mountains or moving objects like clouds.<br><strong>This link shows </strong>some really interesting photos, explains the reasons on patternicity.  </div>]]></description>
         <enclosure url="https://meaningness.com/pattern" />
         <pubDate>2017-02-13 19:07:12 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Simplicity (Reasons for belief)</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div>When one thinks that a weird coincidence or a dream becoming real is a special ability of perceiving future events, while its authentic explanation is the law of large numbers with deals with the commonness of these coincidental outcomes. <br><strong>The link describes</strong> why, what, when and where this "This Co incidents" occur. <br><br></div>]]></description>
         <enclosure url="https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/02/the-true-meaning-of-coincidences/463164/" />
         <pubDate>2017-02-13 19:12:59 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Unexplained (Reasons to belief)</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div>When one does not have any logical explanation to the causality of that event. Something unknown to us, but when we try to explain it through theoretical reasoning)<br><strong>The link shows</strong> lots of unexplained phenomena, anomalies and mysteries. <br><br></div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2017-02-13 20:32:09 UTC</pubDate>
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