Kevin J. Worthen Summary

John Jeziorowski also led a breakout session and spoke about the ethics in human research. Dr. Jeziorowski quoted Colt McCoy stating, “Gods plan is perfect and I am exactly where I’m supposed to be.” He signified how important it was the audience attended the event and that they would not have been present unless they were meant to be there, promoting change. He also emphasized the importance of developing listening skills when speaking with a patient. In order to truly promote patient health and well-being, health care workers must be engaged, always ask questions, and take patients problems into consideration no matter how miniscule.

An article written by Eric Beam, MD and titled “Welcome to post-truth Medicine” was published on the blog The Long White Coat on January 22, 2017. Eric Beam is an internal medicine resident in New York and The Long White Coat is a blog that focuses on healthcare related issues. This article in particular focuses on post-truth in medicine and was written mainly for other doctors, but it also applies to non-doctors. Dr. Beam seamlessly blends together his use of ethos, pathos, and logos to effectively argue that healthcare has been significantly affected in the post-truth era and it needs to stop.

As Pitts said from the article, “We admit no ideas that do not confirm us, hear no voice that does not echo us, sift out all information that does not validate what we wish to believe”. Therefore, people are becoming prevented from thinking in a logical, “critical” way they don’t just simply believe what isn’t correct according to their way of thinking. When we listen to information-provider like radio and TV, we realized that we are being estranged because of our own way of thinking, “alienated” even from the simplest truth. This can lead us into believing false facts and we can do nothing but to believe them. The falsities outbreak is a real danger to the modern world because we are always advancing in modern

The perpetuation of misinformation can be very difficult to correct and may have lasting effects even after it is discredited. For instance, if an audience is reliant on the information provided by the media to make an informative decision about a topic involving their morals, the validity of the author’s claims will determine the mass majority of their decisions they make in the future. As a result, false information may continue to influence beliefs and attitudes even after being debunked if it is not replaced by an alternate causal explanation.

Discuss the way of seeking God. How does faith and understanding relate to or work with each other?

Both readings of Alister E McGrath talk about faith. One focuses on how faith has change over the years and the other reading focuses on the challenges of faith.

Faith is the belief in a person, thing, or idea without concrete evidence of its certainty. Although in some arenas, such as science, it is looked down upon, faith is ever presence in people's lives. It takes faith to belief that a chair will support one’s weight. It takes faith to belief that others will fulfill their promises and responsibilities. John Donne, Robert Fink, and Annie Dillard are three authors who use faith as a topic for one of their works.

The media has been adversely affected by the explosion of information sources. It has become a tedious and cumbersome endeavor to accurately locate information sources that can stand to even the slightest bit of scrutinizing. For those who attempt to report the truth, they continue to find it

We live in a period of time where information is readily available to us. With just a touch of a button we can gather information instantly. Once we have received the information, we need to discover if the information is the truth or false. We have a responsible to seek and find out for yourselves if the information is true. President Uchtdorf encourages us to not jump to conclusions based on our small amount of knowledge or experience. Many of the things we know or believe to be true are just a segment of the truth.

Although many people in modern democracies assume that exposure to facts enlightens the misinformed citizenry, Keohane describes how, on the contrary, when faced with facts, the misinformed public rarely changes its mind. Rather, according to Brenda Nyhan’s study at the University of Michigan, when faced with facts that contradict their version of the truth, many people become “even more set in their beliefs” since they do not want to admit they are wrong. Moreover, this is reinforced by the fact that human brain seeks consistency, meaning that the way it interprets information is biased towards confirming its preconceived notions. This, compounded with the current surplus of misinformation in the media, allows the citizenry to believe

In today’s society, remaining connected and knowledgeable of current events and the newest trends is vital to staying ahead in business, education, and social standing. This information is supplied to everyone through the internet, newspapers, television, and radio. One can tune into stations such as CNN, NBC, Fox News, Al-Jazeera, and many others (“SQs of Media Outlets”). In order to meet the needs of viewers, readers, and listeners, the ideal media system would contain accurate, quick information, with a purely impartial view on the facts as they are known. However, this modern media system has not maintained an objective view, pushing opinionated and slanted reporting onto the population in order to create profit and gain customers. The exploitation of information media for personal gain has created a toxic and inaccurate present, constant in today’s society.

Silverman believes the news while being founded on accurate information, has now become known for lies and rumors. Lack of credentials results in distorted facts, which leads to the routine of claiming and exerting some compelling phrase to receive credibility. Silverman’s goal is to create an awareness in the next generation of journalists, so that the river of polluted information, may someday, return to the

In preparation for week six paper on the selected topic “How does God call”, there are many ways the broad principles of reading and thinking skills enriched research. Many students come into different universities and college and take courses having knowledge, beliefs, and attitude to get there class assignments done. When students bring this awareness to the inside of a classroom, it not only influences what they are willing to accept, but it then blocks the way they look at what is being taught. One thing I love from Thielicke is when he stated “During the period when the voice is changing we do not sing, and during this formative period in the life of the theological student he does not preach.” In other words, when one comes into a new area of life they must then remove and forgot all things in which they have learnt for just a little bit and seek to go higher; but they must open their ears and shut their mouths. If students prior knowledge is healthy, precise and actuated at the appropriate time, it provides a strong foundation for building new knowledge. However, when knowledge is wrong, inadequate, and or inaccurate, it can affect with new learning.

The production of knowledge is a process that occurs through a sequence of related actions, these series of actions allows for the Ways of Knowing to interact in a way that works to develop the knowledge that is being produced. From the prescribed title we can claim that while the Ways of Knowing may appear to be acting in isolation when forming knowledge, they are actually working in a variety of different ways in the construction and formation. In some cases, the Ways of Knowing are interacting so closely together that it is often hard to differentiate between them, for example emotion and reason, or imagination and memory. Given the right circumstances faith can be isolated to a point where it can be acting by itself to produce knowledge. However, this knowledge is often deemed as unreliable, due to faith being seen as one of the more “subjective” ways of knowing. This inability to differentiate the ways of knowing from each other during the production of knowledge, raises the questions “Can any knowledge in any Area of Knowledge be produced by a single Way of Knowing?” and “Is it possible to distinguish between Ways of Knowing if they are working together?”. While reason is used in almost all production of knowledge, it is the other Ways of Knowing used that can determine whether the knowledge is reliable or not, as some Ways of Knowing are more subjective than others. This essay will attempt to

As the world evolves and changes due to the explosion of technology, so does mankind's ways of intellectual comprehension of informative news. The present day of news has overemphasized the meaning of fake news; which represents any form of false information that is illustrated as factual news. That tends to spread throughout the internet and the media. Misinformed news has taken over the world in so many ways, such as the birth of satirical and sketchy news, the financial motivation to publish actual false news, and difficult to sustain news.