How Inoculation Can Help Prevent Pseudoscience | Big Think - 2 views
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It is easier to fool a person than it is to convince a person that they’ve been fooled. This is one of the great curses of humanity.
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Given the incredible amount of information we process each day, it is difficult for any of us to critically analyze all of it.
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The state of Minnesota is battling a measles outbreak caused by anti-vaccination propaganda. And Discussion over the effects of misinformation on recent elections in Austria, Germany, and the United States is still ongoing.
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Fake news and alternative facts are things that mess up our perception a lot. As we learned in TOK, there are a lot of fallacies in human reasoning. People tend to stick with their pre-existing worldview or ideas. I found it very interesting that people reduce the effect of misinformation by having an "inoculation". I think our TOK class is like the "inoculation" in a way that it asks us question and challenge us with the idea that everything might not seem as definite or absolute as it seems. TOK class can definitely help us to be immune of the fake news. --Sissi (5/25/2017)