PHI103 Ashford University Artificially Dirty Eggs Article Paper
Humanities
Reflect: Think about how many hoaxes and fakes are available to us today, including on the internet, and choose a specific example of interest to you. If you are having a tough time thinking of one, you can check out many examples on websites such as http://hoaxes.org/ (Links to an external site.).
Write: Within your post:
- share an example of an interesting hoax of faker. Include a link or bibliographical information for the source.).
- Discuss some or all of the following:
- What was the nature of the trick?
- How many people seemed to ‘fall for it’?
- What mistakes in reasoning did they commit (if any)?
- Was the hoax or fake ever debunked (and how)?
- Do you think that you would have fallen for it if you had been there (why or why not)?
- What kinds of tricks are we exposed to in our everyday lives and how can we learn not to fall for them?
