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Conspiracy Theoretical Analysis

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One of the many flaws human beings posses is the incessant need to be right. Whether its over an important issue like whether or not God exists, or a petty argument over who sang a song better, it is natural instinct to fight in favor of our opinions. Just look at the comment section on YouTube, or the replies to a celebrity’s tweets, and there will be hundreds of posts where people are calling others’ opinions dumb, and saying that only their opinion is right. What many of these people do not realize is that the reasoning behind their opinions rely on logical fallacies. This same trend can also be found in many articles that analyze conspiracy theories because many of them base their evidence off of logical fallacies. When the author uses …show more content…

Dice does this when he talks about the founder of Times Magazine. He very briefly points out the fact that Henry Luce, founder of Times Magazine, was a member of Skull and Bones in order to make the listeners associate the magazine with something that is bad. This fallacy is especially bad because it does not focus on the facts at all. Dice is just saying that you cannot trust Times magazine simply because its founder’s past is not squeaky clean. The next logical fallacy found in the video is association, or inductive reasoning, fallacy. This fallacy occurs because Dice’s reasoning follows this ABC pattern, because A equals B, and B equals C, A must equal C. Dice’s logic goes something like this; (A) the CIA is accused of intentionally spreading AIDS, (B) the CIA has admitted to, and has been suspected of, doing other things like this, (C) so the CIA must have intentionally spread the AIDS virus. Dice relies on these fallacious arguments to prove his theory, but he fails to give any actual evidence to support …show more content…

“He [Rife] later found a frequency of electromagnetic energy that would cause the cancer virus to diminish completely when entered into the energy field. The great discovery led Rife to create a device that could be tuned to output the frequency that would destruct the cancer (Martino).” Unfortunately, cancer is not a singular disease that acts in uniform throughout all people. In fact there are hundreds of different types of cancers, and they each have their own symptoms, characteristics, and treatments. In his article, “The Hidden Cancer Cure” author Steven Novella helps explain why it is highly unlikely for one machine to cure every type of cancer. Novella says, “It turns out, cancer is a category of many individual diseases that are very challenging to treat. We have made steady progress, and many people with cancer can now be cured – but we have not discovered the one cure for all cancer. I personally am not convinced that we will discover a single cure for all cancer.” He also goes into detail about how Rife’s machine was not at a power level that could generate enough energy to kill even a single bacterial cell (Novella). Martino’s article could fall under the logical fallacy category called false premise. This is because the baseline for his entire argument is untrue. There is no proof for, and actually proof against, a machine that could kill bacterial cancer

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