Identifying Truth or Fiction

Identifying Truth or Fiction

Identifying Truth or Fiction”  Please respond to the following:

The video clip ‘The Baloney Detection Kit’ in the Webtext this week discusses the many ways in which an effective critical thinker assesses the claims made by others. Explain what you believe is the real difference between ‘science’ and ‘pseudoscience’.

Examine the key reasons why so many people might seem to be attracted to more pseudoscience-type claims. Describe at least two (2) such claims that you have heard people make, and analyze the main reasons why such claims do or do not meet rigorous scientific methodology standards. Determine at least two (2) ways in which the material discussed this week has changed your own thinking.

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Science versus Pseudoscience

            From the Baloney Detection Kit one is able to filter truth from fiction. This is because truth is always based on scientific facts while fiction is based on nonscientific facts. This kind truth is known as science while this kind of fiction is known as pseudoscience. Science is a fact that is arrived at after conducting meaningful experiments, evaluating possibilities and establishing evidence to support it. On the other hand, pseudoscience……………………

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