BLA3431

1. Human sciences are "fuzzy" sciences, but they are still sciences.
Psychology should be considered a fuzzy science, because it started out with roots in philosophy, but now the study reaches into other branches of science such as, neurology and physiology.

http://www.ehow.com/about_4565236_psychology.html

2. Science requires data.
Science without Data. Is philosophy a science? According to these websites, philosophy and science has deep connections and influences. http://chronicle.com/blogs/brainstorm/is-philosophy-a-science/45795 http://crev.info/2011/09/science_without_an_object_astrobiology_alien_science/ http://metacrock.blogspot.com/2011/08/science-is-not-only-form-of-knowledge.htm

3. Science runs on careful criticism.
The Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney, gave his criticism on the fallacy of climate change.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/18/romney-climate-change_n_1974053.html

6. Correlation is not causation.
Can sugar be a toxic? Dr.Lustig believes that the increase in sugar consumption correlates to a higher cancer and disease rate, however he has no scientific evidence the back up his claims. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/17/magazine/mag-17Sugar-t.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0 media type="youtube" key="dBnniua6-oM" height="315" width="420"

7. More of something good isn't always better.
Splenda, which was created as a sugar substitute for dietary reasons, has been shown in studies to cause a wide variety of medical illness symptoms. http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2000/12/03/sucralose-dangers.aspx

8. Beware the plausible, __especially__ if it works.
One example of this would be the Pickle fallacy. The woman claimed that the pickle could cure headaches based on her experience, but without any data to support her claims.

9. Where there's smoke, there's smoke.
This article was the finding of David Kay, that Iraq didn't have weapons of mass destruction. Saddam hussein threatened that he had weapons of mass destruction. While no weapons were found, some of his scientist stated that the weapons of mass destruction in Iraq were either destroyed or sent to friendly countries before the war began. David Kay was incorrect of his findings.

http://fair.org/extra-online-articles/from-speculation-to-history/

10. Lack of evidence doesn't mean it's false.
This website shows how rule 10 was broken. Just because there wasn't enough evidence to convict him, does not mean that Oj Simpson was not guilty.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O._J._Simpson_murder_case