https://padlet.com/peanutsparents/vs8fayasiwmz Made with a quick smile en-us 2017-02-06 23:32:38 UTC 2024-12-12 00:59:22 UTC hello@padlet.com peanutsparents https://padlet.com/peanutsparents/vs8fayasiwmz/wish/152000981 Assignment One,
Shelly Marie Kuris (working individually)
Student# 100633869]]> 2017-02-06 23:34:17 UTC https://padlet.com/peanutsparents/vs8fayasiwmz/wish/152000981 peanutsparents https://padlet.com/peanutsparents/vs8fayasiwmz/wish/152001544 Red Flag:  Appeal to Authority
Definition:  This is the use of images such as symbols, celebrities and scientific materials to lend credibility to the product being offered. (http://transform-drugs.blogspot.ca/2008/10/pseudoscience-tobacco-advertsing-from.html)

Connection:  This advertisement uses Professional throat Doctors in a public test to lend credibility to their claim that Old Gold cigarettes are the smoothest cigarettes and won't make you cough "not a cough in a carload". The use of the throat Doctors recommendations implies they must be good for you because the throat doctors (Specialists of throat medicine) are approving of it..]]> 2017-02-06 23:38:56 UTC https://padlet.com/peanutsparents/vs8fayasiwmz/wish/152001544 peanutsparents https://padlet.com/peanutsparents/vs8fayasiwmz/wish/152001587 Red Flag:  Proof by Verbosity
Definition:  This is the use large amounts of information to support claims that upon further review are not relevant or not very compelling.  (www.theflatearthsociety.org/forum/index.php?topic=1324.0)

Connection:   This page on the Flat Earth Society website has a link that it directs new visitors to the site to read. That link and a number of other links on the website list a plethora of facts and statistics that for the most part, have no role or relation in supporting that the earth is flat. It also rebuts various publications that oppose the flat earth Societies beliefs. Again, the information posted is mostly huge amounts of information that does not relate in any way to the shape of the earth. It attempts to lend credibility to their position.

]]> 2017-02-06 23:39:21 UTC https://padlet.com/peanutsparents/vs8fayasiwmz/wish/152001587 peanutsparents https://padlet.com/peanutsparents/vs8fayasiwmz/wish/152001716 Red Flag:  Suppression by Authorities
Definition:  This is the suggestion that certain entities are suppressing the true nature of the item for government, corporate, or personal benefit, or greed. (http://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1860871_1860876_1861003,00.html)

Connection: The assassination of JFK and the subsequent investigation gave rise to a number of possibilities regarding who did it and why. One strongly held belief by a minority was a conspiracy theory that the Government themselves arranged for the assassination. This belief continued despite the arrest and conviction of the shooter.  



]]> 2017-02-06 23:40:52 UTC https://padlet.com/peanutsparents/vs8fayasiwmz/wish/152001716 peanutsparents https://padlet.com/peanutsparents/vs8fayasiwmz/wish/152001929 Red Flag:  All Natural
Definition:  This is used to appeal to people who seek healthy lifestyles and to suggest that the product must be good because it is all natural; yet there are a number of natural products that are not healthy of good.  (https://www.wddty.com/magazine/2017/february/flower-power-how-i-beat-eczema.html)

Connection:  This article appearing in a February 2017 health magazine discusses how a mother used flowers to get rid of her daughters severe case of eczema. The magazine promotes natural alternatives to medical remedies and the Mothers testimony supports this position.  

]]> 2017-02-06 23:43:05 UTC https://padlet.com/peanutsparents/vs8fayasiwmz/wish/152001929 peanutsparents https://padlet.com/peanutsparents/vs8fayasiwmz/wish/152001983 Red Flag:  Mystical Energy
Definition:  This is the use of the word energy, which technically refers to the measure of someones or somethings ability to do work, as a sort of power that can accomplish extraordinary things.  (http://woofighters.org/2010/06/warning-signs-that-something-is-not-scientifi/)

Connection:  In this cartoon, the white-haired guy is telling the boy that he knows that aliens came down with energy valence spirit healing force.  He says It is science.  The boys says he will buy the product.  A second boy questions the testability of the statement as good science is testable.  The energy valence spirit healing force is mystic mumbo jumbo and doesn't even make sense.   ]]> 2017-02-06 23:43:43 UTC https://padlet.com/peanutsparents/vs8fayasiwmz/wish/152001983 peanutsparents https://padlet.com/peanutsparents/vs8fayasiwmz/wish/152002102 Red Flag:  Red Herring
Definition:  This is a distraction that is provided purely to detract and to provide substance  that does not either substantially support the products claims or is completely irrelevant. (http://www.nessie.co.uk/)

Connection: The main page of the Nessie website, which is a website maintained by a group who strongley believe in the truth of the Loch Ness Monster. The first page of the website, under the heading of FACTs, lists a number of facts about the Loch Ness, which is the body of water where Nessie apparently resides. The word Facts draws your attention and without reviewing the material, one would think if these people have facts proving the existence of Nessie, she must be real.  

]]> 2017-02-06 23:44:50 UTC https://padlet.com/peanutsparents/vs8fayasiwmz/wish/152002102 peanutsparents https://padlet.com/peanutsparents/vs8fayasiwmz/wish/153506007 Definition: This is when we believe something because we want it to be true.  We have an emotional connection to the subject and are not rational about it because we want to believe.

Connection:  When people lose someone (they pass away) that they love very much, the wish to connect again with their loved one, particuarly if they did not get a chance to say goodbye, is strong.  Being able to do this by way of a Ouija board (or a medium) is a strong reason for belief.
image:  data:image/jpeg;base64,/9j/4AAQSkZJRgABAQAAAQABAAD/2wCEAAkGBxMTEhUTE]]> 2017-02-13 17:42:18 UTC https://padlet.com/peanutsparents/vs8fayasiwmz/wish/153506007 peanutsparents https://padlet.com/peanutsparents/vs8fayasiwmz/wish/153506061 Definition:  This is when we can't explain why something is the way it is yet so instead we come up with an explanation that is not based on scientific fact.

Connection:  This is a picture taken by a person and posted on a website promoting UFO's. The picture is of a tiny speck in the distance. It is very difficult to tell what it is. To a UFO believer, it must be a UFO, because what other explanation could there be?
image:  http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/12/25/16/2F9BEFA200000578-3374094-image-m-2


]]> 2017-02-13 17:42:26 UTC https://padlet.com/peanutsparents/vs8fayasiwmz/wish/153506061 peanutsparents https://padlet.com/peanutsparents/vs8fayasiwmz/wish/153506117 Definition:  This is when we assign meaning to invisible agents that we believe are a higher authority without any scientific evidence.

Connection: People all over the world believe various version os God, based on their religion. Most religions stem from a purely spiritual belief in God and the concrete and scientific evidence is either subject to interpretation or not compelling. Faith in God is primarily based on faith, that is believing  without concrete proof.  image: data:image/jpeg;base64,/9j/4AAQSkZJRgABAQAAAQABAAD/2wCEAAkGBxMTEhUSE

]]> 2017-02-13 17:42:36 UTC https://padlet.com/peanutsparents/vs8fayasiwmz/wish/153506117 peanutsparents https://padlet.com/peanutsparents/vs8fayasiwmz/wish/153511478 2017-02-13 17:58:45 UTC https://padlet.com/peanutsparents/vs8fayasiwmz/wish/153511478