What: For this project, you will become an expert debunker.
Why: This essay assignment requires you to use the critical thinking standards you learned about in chapters 7 and 8. As such it meets six of the learning objectives for PHR 100 Reasoning: (1) identify and summarize the qualities, attitudes, and goals of the critical thinker; (2) identify, analyze, and evaluate arguments occurring in natural language; (3) demonstrate knowledge of the principles of good reasoning; (4) detect and identify faulty and fallacious reasoning; (5) locate, evaluate, and use effectively information from a variety of relevant sources; (6) produce good arguments, using clear, logical, and concise language, both in speaking and in writing.
Write an essay using good standards of critical thinking to evaluate sources of scientific or medical information on the internet. Here is what is required in
your paper:
1. Find two internet sources that you consider to be highly reliable in a scientific or medical field or profession. You MUST explain WHY they are highly reliable using the standards for evaluating experts and science discussed in chapters 7 8. Are the experts actually experts in that subfield? Do they have the right accredited university training? Etc
2. Find two internet sources that you consider to be unreliable in the same field as the three you found to be reliable. You MUST explain WHY they are unreliable using the standards for evaluating experts and science discussed in chapters 7 8. What critical thinking standards do they violate? Do they provide only anecdotal evidence, or pitch claims to the media avoiding peer review? Do they commit logical fallacies? Etc
