Pheudosciences Flashcards
Using authority figures to enforce products. (Justin bigger used proactive)
Appeal to authority
What is a pseudoscience?
A pseudoscience affects pop culture. It’s an idea that claims to be true but has no evidence.
Medicines and other products from ancient times
Ancient wisdom
people remember things that confirm what they believe or want to believe, but forget things that contradict or pose a problem for the belief
Confirmation bias
A correlation between two examples does not imply that one causes the other
Correlation causation
Distractions from the real question
Red herrings
Use of red herrings by using big words that aren’t aren’t true.
Proof by verbosity
The idea that things with label natural are healthier
All natural
When the authority of something covers up the real evidence
Suppression by authority/conspiracy theory
Energy things
Mystical energy
