Thursday, August 29, 2013

Cure stroke with magic

A search term that found my blog. It was eighth in line. I'm hoping that these searches were not serious.
These two search results actually assume magic works.

A Magic Remedy from China Can Cure Stroke Paralysis 

A Magic Remedy for Treatment for Stroke Victims

 

These are using Appeal to tradition to try to prove their case.

(also known as argumentum ad antiquitatem, appeal to antiquity, or appeal to common practice) is a common fallacy in which a thesis is deemed correct on the basis that it correlates with some past or present tradition. The appeal takes the form of "this is right because we've always done it this way."

 

And why hasn't your doctor been using this magic? Conspiracy anyone? Stroke is needed because those 15 million strokes a year employ millions of people. The world economy might collapse without all this disability and death. 

 

2 comments:

  1. Dean, I followed the directions for the first one and, while I saw some lovely conji, all I got from it is the concept that if there are a lot of Google hits, it's proof it works.

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    1. That's even worse than appeal to antiquity - appeal to Google

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