https://padlet.com/harold_stahlbaum/venpwmc777x4 Paranormal And Pseudoscience en-us 2019-04-08 18:10:20 UTC 2025-12-19 18:57:21 UTC hello@padlet.com harold_stahlbaum https://padlet.com/harold_stahlbaum/venpwmc777x4/wish/349650927 Harry Stahlbaum]]> 2019-04-08 18:12:54 UTC https://padlet.com/harold_stahlbaum/venpwmc777x4/wish/349650927 harold_stahlbaum https://padlet.com/harold_stahlbaum/venpwmc777x4/wish/349655276 Description - This is a website about the potential predictions of Nostradamus in 2019, as well as a short recap of previous years.

Connection - There are multiple connections here, unexplained is one because people don't know how he could be so accurate with many of his previous predictions. Red herring is another here, instead of focusing on interpreting his predictions for what people think will happen in 2019 they spend most of the article talking about past prediction accuracy. Law of large numbers comes into play here because I'm sure millions of people could each predict a day for the start of a world war throughout history and 1 would have to be correct. There is also confirmation bias as people are not trying to point out the flaws and differences but only the similarities.]]> 2019-04-08 18:20:08 UTC https://padlet.com/harold_stahlbaum/venpwmc777x4/wish/349655276 harold_stahlbaum https://padlet.com/harold_stahlbaum/venpwmc777x4/wish/349661709 Description - This is a website focused on Nostradamus predictions that have yet to come true.

Connection - This website tends to pick a more skeptical side, while not being completely skeptical and still referencing the Hitler prediction. It talks a lot about how people are constantly claiming anything and everything to be part of Nostradamus's predictions, and many are making their own claims.]]> 2019-04-08 18:32:35 UTC https://padlet.com/harold_stahlbaum/venpwmc777x4/wish/349661709 harold_stahlbaum https://padlet.com/harold_stahlbaum/venpwmc777x4/wish/349666468 Description - This site is about the accuracy of Nostradamus's predictions.

Connection - While some of his predictions do seem eerily accurate, many of the ones people claim are accurate tend to be more grasping at straws than anything else. If you read through the article there are a lot of red herrings that people use to connect words to meanings for his various predictions that probably shouldn't be used. This leads people to overstate the accuracy of these predictions. As well there is a lot of confirmation bias where people are picking and choosing which words to follow and which ones not to.]]> 2019-04-08 18:41:53 UTC https://padlet.com/harold_stahlbaum/venpwmc777x4/wish/349666468 harold_stahlbaum https://padlet.com/harold_stahlbaum/venpwmc777x4/wish/349668549 Description - This picture is pretty much just clickbait, used to advertise to get people to attempt to come and watch a video

Connection - I think the connection here would be unknown, people want some insight into the future and it makes them go searching for it online.]]> 2019-04-08 18:46:25 UTC https://padlet.com/harold_stahlbaum/venpwmc777x4/wish/349668549 harold_stahlbaum https://padlet.com/harold_stahlbaum/venpwmc777x4/wish/349750095 Description - Tabloid cover

Connection - I think the main connection here would be emotional connection, this tabloid is preying on peoples fear in an effort to get them to buy more]]> 2019-04-09 00:32:23 UTC https://padlet.com/harold_stahlbaum/venpwmc777x4/wish/349750095 harold_stahlbaum https://padlet.com/harold_stahlbaum/venpwmc777x4/wish/349752498 Description - Twin towers picture from 9/11

Connection - The 2 connections I could see here would be agenticity, because people are trying to assign a reason or meaning, or someone responsible for the attacks, and are constantly believing conspiracy theories about it, and appeal to authority, because people think that Nostradamus is an authority on all tragedies that happen because of his predictions, even when they only vaguely resemble an event.]]> 2019-04-09 00:43:51 UTC https://padlet.com/harold_stahlbaum/venpwmc777x4/wish/349752498 harold_stahlbaum https://padlet.com/harold_stahlbaum/venpwmc777x4/wish/349755690 Description - Discovery Channel video claiming the truth about nostradamus

Connection - I believe one of the biggest contributors to people believing Nostradamus's prophecies is the observation and perception reason for belief, this is because many of the re-tellings of the stories are subject to the perception of people at the time, and are likely being broken telephoned throughout history to result in what we have today being compared to his quatrains. This video goes into depth about a lot of his predictions, and even says at one point every line has links, when referring to one of his predictions in relation to 9/11, some of these links though are shaky at best and are just a matter of how one perceives the quatrains.]]> 2019-04-09 01:00:15 UTC https://padlet.com/harold_stahlbaum/venpwmc777x4/wish/349755690 harold_stahlbaum https://padlet.com/harold_stahlbaum/venpwmc777x4/wish/349755712 Description - Video about Nostradamus predictions that haven't happened yet

Connection - Patternicity, a lot of people try to find patterns between Nostradamus's predictions and things that are happening in the world around them. This leads to people making connections that might not actually be there.]]> 2019-04-09 01:00:22 UTC https://padlet.com/harold_stahlbaum/venpwmc777x4/wish/349755712 harold_stahlbaum https://padlet.com/harold_stahlbaum/venpwmc777x4/wish/349755738 Description - Older video about Nostradamus's predictions

Connection - I would almost attribute this one to ancient wisdom or spiritual energy, sending information back through people to talk to this woman who claims Nostradamus has been sending her information through past life regression therapy]]> 2019-04-09 01:00:28 UTC https://padlet.com/harold_stahlbaum/venpwmc777x4/wish/349755738 harold_stahlbaum https://padlet.com/harold_stahlbaum/venpwmc777x4/wish/349755816 1. What did you learn about the topic that most surprised you?

The thing that surprised me the most was just how many people actually believed it, the fact that after the 9/11 attacks the top searched name in Google was Nostradamus and not Bin Laden was kind of alarming

2. Provide a real-life example of how this topic is relevant or interesting to you?

This is a fairly hard question, since I don't think Nostradamus has ever actually predicted anything that is of relevance to me.... I know my Dad talked about him and the Mayan calendar and ancient aliens a lot when I was a kid though

3. Which research did you find most interesting and why?

I found the videos fairly interesting, especially the one about the woman who though she was getting messages from him, that one mostly because it was interesting to see the look back to years ago and all the things that didn't actually come to pass, like the gulf war being the start of WWIII

4. What are you most likely to remember from this research?

I will probably remember how easily people can grasp for things to be there that aren't necessarily there.

5. Having completed all the course content which pseudoscience belief do you think is the most harmful?

I think ideology is probably the most harmful since people have used religion as the backbone to arguments resulting in atrocities for centuries, and with new things like anti-vax and faith healing in an age when medicine is so much more advanced for people to just let their families and children die for a belief is just dumb.

6. If you could pass on your knowledge to a family member or friend, which information do you think is the most important to pass on?

If it was at all possible I would convince my girlfriend that ghosts aren't real, but since that isn't possible, I would probably just tell them to keep a skeptical mind when looking at new topics to make sure they don't get fooled.]]> 2019-04-09 01:00:57 UTC https://padlet.com/harold_stahlbaum/venpwmc777x4/wish/349755816