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Though the current project started as a series of posts charting my grief journey after the death of my mother, I am no longer actively grieving. Now, the blog charts a conversation in living, mainly whatever I want it to be. This is an activity that goes well with the theme of this blog (updated 2018). The Sense of Doubt blog is dedicated to my motto: EMBRACE UNCERTAINTY. I promote questioning everything because just when I think I know something is concrete, I find out that it’s not.

Saturday, November 12, 2022

A Sense of Doubt blog post #2825 - Counter Argument and Logical Fallacies video via the SIMPSONS (and more)

A Sense of Doubt blog post #2825 - Counter Argument and Logical Fallacies video via the SIMPSONS (and more)

I created this series for my English 101 classes called THE INVESTIGATORS OF THE TRUTH series split in three episodes: counter arguments, fake news and misinformation, and logical fallacies (and a bit more counter arguments).

The logical fallacies stuff is great using The Simpsons, Futurama, and The Family Guy to show examples of logical fallacies, like slippery slope, straw man, and ad hominem.

Genius!

Here's the videos but also a great sample followed my assignment.

Thanks for tuning in.

Enjoy!

SIMPSONS LOGICAL FALLACIES

- Colburn Classroom

- 22 video playlist

5 Tips To Spot Bad Science About COVID-19 Notes:

● Tip 1: “Know your source.”

○ What is the author arguing?

○ What does the scientific consensus have to say about the topic?

○ Is it an epidemiologist? Or is it just someone who got their facts from an article they read online?

● Tip 2: “Click the links.”

○ Suppose someone gives information about their topic and links to where they got the information from. Then go to the site and see it for yourself. Is that site credible?

○ Looking for the citations will help you figure out whether what you’re reading represents the evidence.

● Tip 3: “Don’t be taken in by headlines or graphics.”

○ Headlines and graphics are good ways to draw people in and even persuade people to read and believe the information.

● Tip 4: “Don’t be intimidated by jargon.”

○ Don’t let information that sounds or looks reasonable change the way you think; make sure it is true!

○ Just because someone has a graph or chart doesn't always make them correct.

● Tip 5: “Don’t fall for the Gish Gallop.”

○ Don’t let an influx of information make your decision-making skewed.

○ People who are trained and know what they are talking about are far more reliable than people who find random information online and just use that to make their case.

Simpsons Logical Fallacies: Ad Hominem: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnMmXTVOjBY&list=PLcyVkNeXvb4hn57t2SYDj0HKdI3sz6qwN&index=1&t=6s

I feel like this could be used in my essay about a living wage in a way. People make different amounts of money, we all know that, and an argument people can make against raising the minimum wage to a living wage is that people make more than a living wage, so they don’t care; which is selfish and it shows the difference between those who people who are more wealthy and those who are poor.

Family Guy Logical Fallacies: Equivocation:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGCwPIU4iOs&list=PLcyVkNeXvb4hn57t2SYDj0HKdI3sz6qwN&index=6

This can correlate to my essay about a living wage well, as people often confuse a living wage and minimum wage and try to relate the two terms as if they are equal.

Simpsons Logical Fallacies: Begging the Question:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wk0unUvDK0A&list=PLcyVkNeXvb4hn57t2SYDj0HKdI3sz6qwN&index=16

You can probably say this about every topic. The topic of minimum wage, however is such a huge deal that you need evidence to back you up so that people can see the problems and can’t turn away from them.

Simpsons Logical Fallacies: Slippery Slope:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wylfMowmNhc&list=PLcyVkNeXvb4hn57t2SYDj0HKdI3sz6qwN&index=17

The Slippery Slope is probably the biggest problem with the argument for raising the minimum wage to a living wage. If you raise the amount of money people make, industries will be losing out on a lot of money, or if we raise the minimum wage, we have to raise the prices of fuel and groceries. This solves nothing and is something I go over in my essay.

INVESTIGATORS OF THE TRUTH ASSIGNMENTS 09 - episode three - Critical Thinking and Logical Fallacies

- Rebecca Watson video
- Simpsons Logical Fallacies videos

ALL NOTES AND DOCUMENT FOR THIS ASSIGNMENT MUST BE TYPED.

Image result for 5 tips for spotting BS Rebecca Watson

PART ONE - Thinking Critically with Rebecca Watson

Watch the video and read the transcript at this link:

A Sense of Doubt blog post #1873 - How to Spot Bad Science about COVID-19: Rebecca Watson

Write at least two paragraphs reflecting on what you learned about credibility and thinking critically about sources, about identifying bias, and how you might apply these lessons as you evaluate your own sources and consider what information that you plan to include in your essays that you have to CORROBORATE THIS QUARTER as well as in the future in classes and just in your own life quest to find accurate and reliable information.

For example, say I find a source that tells me that only 5% of gun crimes in the last five years in the nation were committed by people with permits to carry concealed weapons where that practice is legal. This is fact that should be corroborated by more than one source and even two sources could still be the result of bias and fake news. I might want to corroborate that fact from more than two sources and see if there are contrasting facts that negate the fact I have. This process is similar to what Watson does in her video and the basis of her arguments.

PART TWO - LOGICAL FALLACIES AND THE SIMPSONS

Watch all these videos in this playlist and write about at least four that either you realize you have in your essay and explain with text from your essay or ones you feel you need to be watchful for as you could see making this kind of logical fallacy in writing. Use your essay as an example of the latter as well.

Watch additional videos or Google search logical fallacies if you feel you need more clarity.

No length parameter for this part. Use your judgement for how best to deliver the content on four logical fallacies and examples from your own work.

Chris Tower will provide SOME instruction on logical fallacies in class.

SIMPSONS LOGICAL FALLACIES

- Colburn Classroom

- 22 video playlist (don't freak 0 they are all short)

BONUS VIDEO - just for fun

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I am Christopher Tower the gmr

I am Christopher Tower (or Chris), and I am a writer of stuff. I grew up in Michigan; I now live in the Portland, OR metro area. I play Ultimate, ride a bike, and supposedly educate college persons while myself being educated in college. I am married with two kids, a beagle, a curly lab, and a fiesty pug/frenche mix. I like sushi. I love all SF, fantasy, comic books, D&D, board games, and Gnosticism. I am a Jungian. I am currently studying Clinical Mental Health Counseling at Walden University.

SENSE OF DOUBT STATUS AS OF 0705.04 - 16:45

Sense of Doubt is not currently dedicated to any themes or special interest. The subject matter is mine and may range from comic books to ultimate or from Baseball to feminist-centered media criticism. Until I feel I have enough content for multiple blogs, or until I am seized with a desire to create multiple blogs, this is it, and appropriately so. "Sense of Doubt" came about in Bowie’s Berlin period and the dark, ambient collaborations with Brian Eno. Like the Bowie of 1978, I have my own darkness that steals over me and through me, infecting everything. At the risk of sounding far too melodramatically obsessed with my own self-flagellations, this blog dedicates itself to that darkness, that infection. But it’s fun, too. Hey, I can be amusing? Or not. It’s the way of the [w]rench. Neurosis compelling action in insecure double-checking and misunderstanding evasions. It is my way.

More from the original description text that needed editing in 2015: Furthermore, Sense of Doubt is dedicated to the random. The theme is no theme. Just questions, doubt, and uncertainty. Feel the power of not knowing the answer. So dedicated on the last day of July 2006 by the Galactic Monkey Wrench.

The Galactic Monkey Wrench

This is the logo of the Galactic Monkey Wrench. I was given the nickname Galactic Monkey Wrench in college by a friend of mine who felt that I threw the monkey wrench into the cosmos at every available opportunity. Later, in discussions with my best friend, who is the Lord of Chaos (the Loc), he asked for my title and when I told him, without thinking, he blurted out "the gmr!" Since this was random and we appreciate randomness, I became the gmr, even though technically I should be the gmw. But gmw sounds like a car or some industrial manufacturing firm that makes a strange widget of which one has never heard. This acronym fetish may make no sense to anyone else, but my friend and I are quite driven to provide acronyms for many things. At the very least, it allows us to keep our conversations obscure and often private as no one knows about what we're talking.

Monkey Wrench Books

Chris's books

A Feast for Crows

by George R.R. Martin

This book is a little slower than the others. But if you become invested in this series, it provides key information about the history of Westeros and the lands across the Narrow Sea. It may not contain chapters with my favorite characters ...

A Game of Thrones

by George R.R. Martin

Do I really need to review this book? It's one of the best books I have ever read. Martin is a great writer. All the books are great, and I am loving my time rereading them. If you have not checked out these books, start here and get ready ...

The Golden City

by John Twelve Hawks

These books are immensely entertaining. Treat yourself to some strong writing, great action, compelling characters, and a mix of metaphysics and theology. The ending of this third book, which is presumably the last, is anti-climactic and so...

Pathfinder

by Orson Scott Card

This was a fun book. Not OSC's best but very good OSC nonetheless. The best thing about is the time travel, slowing, and speeding powers of the characters and how OSC engages the reader in discussion of causality and time paradox. For fans ...

Swamplandia!

by Karen Russell

This book came to me via my wife Liesel who discovered it and urged me to read it. Beautifully written with compelling characters and a sense of the magical (yet realistic, somewhat). Funny yet full of the pathos that marks a good if not gr...

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