Please visit the following website to read the article on Michael Shermer and the Baloney Detection Kit: http://homepages.wmich.edu/~korista/baloney....

Please visit the following website to read the article on Michael Shermer and the Baloney Detection Kit: http://homepages.wmich.edu/~korista/baloney.html. If this link is not working, you will need to use the Internet to research a video or article on this topic.Respond to these 2 posts.. Your thoughts on these post after reading the article..1. I really enjoyed reading this article by Michael Shermer. I believe that he has a great number of strengths found in his article. He is essentially saying that it’s not that we should believe everything we hear, but more that we should really look into the information and form our own reasoning and conclusion behind what we are being told. The individual is the only one who can decide if there is truth behind what they are being told or if it is false. I have always been told that just because someone makes a statement, it doesn’t necessarily mean that it is true.The questions that he asks in the article are great questions and are a great way for the individual to be able to decide for themselves what they believe and what they do not. For example, one of his questions suggests that you should ask yourself if there are other sources to back up what you are being told. You can research things on your own to find out more about what you have been told to make your own conclusion about things. There are going to be controversial facts about everything in the world but it is up to you to decide what you want to believe and what you don’t. No one can force you to do so.I feel that the only weakness in his views would be that because there may not be any scientific evidence to back up a claim, so the individual would be able to make their own decision in regards to believing the claim or not. In cases like this, there are no right or wrong answers; simply what the person feels is correct for them.I do agree with Shermer’s views to an extent. I do not feel as though you should necessarily have to use all of the questions to make a decision on what you believe and what you don’t believe but I do think that you should research the items that you feel may be false. You definitely should not believe every single thing that you hear or that you are told. A majority of them could simply be rumors while others can be very true.2. What are some of the strengths of Shermer’s views? Use examples from your textbook to explain your answer. One of the strengths is the overall open mind approach to any certain item. There are two sides, if not more, to any situation and this can be manipulated upon new evidence being presented. Before the evidence is presented, you most likely have an argument of what happened versus an explanation of the evidence after is has been presented. Arguing that she murdered them must involve other claims that give reasons for accepting the claim. By contrast, an explanation of why she murdered them assumes that she did – takes it as a given fact that she did – then accounts for her doing it (Black & Munson, 2012). •What are some of the weaknesses of his views? Use examples from your textbook to explain why. A weakness of his views is that you cannot, according to him, believe anything without questioning it. This can be misleading depending on the source of the information. If you were to ask 100 college students in Alabama the same question that you asked 100 college students in Oregon, you would get different answers, depending on the specific question. This can result in your research being flawed or the outcome not being consistent with the overall populace. Evaluating statistical syllogisms is usually simple and straightforward. In general, a premise that x percent of the population has a certain attribute makes it likely to degree x that a given individual in the population has the attribute (Black & Munson, 2012).•Do you agree with Shermer’s view? Why or why not? I agree with researching before taking a stand or having an opinion in most cases. If I was to go to a doctor about my health, I would want to get a second or third opinion just to ensure such a major part of my life is well taken care of. If I was to go to a swim teacher, I would take their word on how to swim better, and not go through a lot of extra research and information gathering due to them being the professional and expert in that field. There may be 500 different exercise for swimming, but the goal is not to learn all of them for me, it is just to get in the water and get better.