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Bookmarks save entire pages...Clipmarks save the specific content that matters to you!en-ushttp://clipmarks.com/clipmark/30D9815E-2E42-46CE-A01D-7C4CF8EF2F2A/<b>clipped by:</b> <a href="http://clipmarks.com/clipper/CrazyRedHead/">CrazyRedHead</a><br><div border="2" style="margin-top: 10px; border:#000000 1px solid;" width="90%"><div style="background-color:"><div align="center" width="100%" style="padding:4px;margin-bottom:4px;background-color:#666666;overflow:hidden;"><span style="color:#FFFFFF;font-weight:bold;">Clip Source: <a style="color:#FFFFFF;" href="http://www.positiveatheism.org/writ/sherm3.htm" title="http://www.positiveatheism.org/writ/sherm3.htm">www.positiveatheism.org</a></span></div><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><FONT size="+3">How Thinking Goes Wrong<BR /> </FONT></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;">Twenty-five Fallacies That Lead Us<BR /> to Believe Weird Things</div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><FONT size="+1">1. Theory Influences Observations</FONT></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><FONT size="+1">2. The Observer Changes the Observed</FONT></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><FONT size="+1">3. Equipment Constructs Results</FONT></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><FONT size="+1">4. Anecdotes Do Not Make a Science</FONT></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><FONT size="+1">5. Scientific Language Does Not Make a Science</FONT></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><FONT size="+1">6. Bold Statements Do Not Make Claims True</FONT></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><FONT size="+1">7. Heresy Does Not Equal Correctness</FONT></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P><A name="8"></A><FONT size="+1">8. Burden of Proof</FONT></P></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><FONT size="+1">9. Rumors Do Not Equal Reality</FONT></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><FONT size="+1">10. Unexplained Is Not Inexplicable</FONT></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><FONT size="+1">11. Failures Are Rationalized</FONT></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><FONT size="+1">12. After-the-Fact Reasoning</FONT></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><FONT size="+1">13. Coincidence</FONT></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><FONT size="+1">14. Representativeness</FONT></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><FONT size="+1">15. Emotive Words and False Analogies</FONT></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><FONT size="+1">16. <I>Ad Ignorantiam</I></FONT></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><FONT size="+1">17. <I>Ad Hominem</I> and <I>Tu Quoque</I></FONT></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><FONT size="+1">18. Hasty Generalization</FONT></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><FONT size="+1">19. Overreliance on Authorities</FONT></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><FONT size="+1">20. Either-Or</FONT></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><FONT size="+1">21. Circular Reasoning</FONT></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><FONT size="+1">22. <I>Reductio ad Absurdum</I> and the Slippery Slope</FONT></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><FONT size="+1">23. Effort Inadequacies and the Need for Certainty, Control, and Simplicity</FONT></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><FONT size="+1">24. Problem-Solving Inadequacies</FONT></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><FONT size="+1">25. Ideological Immunity, or the Planck Problem</FONT></div></div></div></div><br><div style="margin-bottom: 40px;">Tags: <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/science/" rel="tag">science</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/reason/" rel="tag">reason</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/logic/" rel="tag">logic</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/evolution/" rel="tag">evolution</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/knowledge/" rel="tag">knowledge</a></div>http://www.positiveatheism.org/writ/sherm3.htmWed, 18 Apr 2007 04:26:17 GMThttp://clipmarks.com/clipmark/58236607-D926-4CC7-8FE8-94118CB106FE/<b>clipped by:</b> <a href="http://clipmarks.com/clipper/EwanSpence/">EwanSpence</a><br><div border="2" style="margin-top: 10px; border:#000000 1px solid;" width="90%"><div style="background-color:"><div align="center" width="100%" style="padding:4px;margin-bottom:4px;background-color:#666666;overflow:hidden;"><span style="color:#FFFFFF;font-weight:bold;">Clip Source: <a style="color:#FFFFFF;" href="http://www.websurdity.com/2007/02/28/uncomfortable-questions-was-the-death-star-attack-an-inside-job/" title="http://www.websurdity.com/2007/02/28/uncomfortable-questions-was-the-death-star-attack-an-inside-job/">www.websurdity.com</a></span></div><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"> We’ve all heard the “official conspiracy theory” of the Death Star attack.</div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"> Like many citizens of the Empire, I was fed this story when I was growing up.</div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"> Presented here are some of the results of my soul-searching regarding this painful event. Like many citizens, I have many questions that I would like answered: was the mighty Imperial government really too incompetent to prevent a handful of untrained nerf-herders from destroying one of their most prized assets? Or are they hiding something from us? Who was really behind the attack? Why did they want the Death Star destroyed? No matter what the answers, we have a problem.</div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;">But as I watched the video, I began to realize that all was not as it seemed. And the more I questioned the official story, the deeper into the rabbit hole I went.</div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"> 4) Why has there not been an investigation into allegations that Darth Vader, the second-ranking member of the Imperial Government, is in fact the <EM>father</EM> of the pilot who allegedly destroyed the Death Star?</div></div></div></div><br><div style="margin-bottom: 40px;">Tags: <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/star+wars/" rel="tag">star wars</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/death+star/" rel="tag">death star</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/conspiracy/" rel="tag">conspiracy</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/parody/" rel="tag">parody</a></div>http://www.websurdity.com/2007/02/28/uncomfortable-questions-was-the-death-star-attack-an-inside-job/Wed, 18 Apr 2007 20:22:26 GMT