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What do gorilla suits and blowfish fallacies have to do with climate change?

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What do gorilla suits and blowfish fallacies have to do with climate change?
The article explains the concept of fallacies using the gorilla and the blow-fish fallacies

while relating them to the climate change. It is ridiculous like the meaning of the fallacies is. It is

surprising how the fallacies are connected to the changes in climate discussed in the article. This

shows how critics of a research point out at evidences for a research to create and spread

unnecessary information while hiding the actual, important information on climate change. The

author discusses how the fallacies are used to misinform the public while distracting them from

having the right and important information or detail. He gives example of the journalist who

biasly chose data and casted doubt on the data to create misinformation.

Irrelevant information is focused on and distract people from the main information they

may need. The journalist created doubt over the temperature record leading to global warming

(Cook January 2017). By doing so, he divided the attention of many on the human actions that

lead to global warming and started a discussion on the data and ignored the fact human actions is

the key cause of the global warming problem and that it is what need to be discussed.

The idea of blow-fish and gorilla suits fallacies are perfect replacement of unnecessary

information critics come up with to withdraw the attention of many from the facts and important

things they ought to listen or focus on. The fallacies represent the misleading information that

distract people from the important things. It is clear how irrelevant the temperature records has

no effect on the fact the humans are the main causes of global warming (Cook January 2017).

Furthermore, the data criticized has been the result of several independent researches carried out

on different grounds. Likewise, making people focus on hard things can make them miss the

gorilla.
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The most likely source for the article is Neutralizing misinformation through inoculation:

Exposing misleading argumentation techniques reduces their influence (Cook et. al. 2017). The

book is the main encouragement to writing the article. The book that was initial written by Cook

alongside other writers, is more focused on the misconceptions and how they can be dealt with. It

is closely related to the idea of fallacies that are used to be distractive and even contain

misleading information. The authors discuss hoe misconception can be leading with the climate

changes. The article gives its view on misleading information from media and so on.

Neutralizing adverse effects begins with acknowledging the source of misleading information

like it is with the gorilla and blow-fish fallacies.

The article is in line with the ideas in the fallacies that causes misleading information to

come up. The article share the idea of the role of media in spreading fallacies that distract people

from engaging on real actions and working with the facts. The role of acknowledging

misinformation is related to the article by conservation on the fallacies which are misleading

among the users.

The article is on misleading information on climate change that needs to be tackled.

Likewise the information in the article is on the fallacies that rea misleading on climate change

research and information. The content of the two books are closely related with the author

appearing on both works. The article is a more improve version of the author’s referral source.

The data and information from either sides is not distorted in any way.
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References
Cook, J. (2017, January). Understanding and countering climate science denial. In Journal and

Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales (Vol. 150, No. 465/466, pp. 207-

219).

Cook, J., Lewandowsky, S., & Ecker, U. K. (2017). Neutralizing misinformation through

inoculation: Exposing misleading argumentation techniques reduces their influence. PloS

one, 12(5), e0175799.