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4.22issue 87 Claim: Any piece of information referred to as a fact should be mistrusted, since it may well be proven false in the future. Reason: Much of the information that people assume is factual turns out to be inaccurate.
Whenever you turn on the TV, radio, or surf the internet, you will be lured by commodities decorated with delicate images and advantages. However, once you’re convinced by the advertiser, you will undoubtedly get frustrated on receiving the good which is never as perfect as the advertisement advocates. In so many aspects of our society, including mass media, politic, even science, since much of the information received proves to be not precise, any piece of information regarded as a fact must be mistrusted. In mass media, composed of newspaper and internet, tell false information all the time. As we all know, besides the income of ads, media companies gain profit from their unique spread and criticism of news. However, competing with their competent, most of them favor concocting anomalous anecdotes which attract the readers most. It is common that numerous portal sites use photoshop-a software devised to mingle and adjust different pictures-to create unreal scene to incite sensation. Similarly, newspapers tend to compile rumors to draw attention. For example, a most striking news during the 1960, reports that a girl have been lived with wolves for sixteen years, proved to be false by the former editor. In this case, as long as the mass media is motivated by pecuniary interests, we should hold doubts about the accuracy of any piece of news. In another aspect, politic as well as government, the principle of suspicion also works. Firstly, in order to possess greater number of supporters, politicians always show their omnipotent characteristic and hide their smirches. In this way, they provide the populace with well-ameliorated information which deserves discredit. Secondly, governments of all most every nation, come up with inaccurate information in consideration of their own interest. For instance, proposing to cheer citizens up, Japan overstates its GDP up to 8.5% while in fact the number is merely 3.5%. In all, as it is clearly revealed, the information from politicians and official announcers is more faker than original. When it comes to science, a sphere propelled by skepticism, the great theories and achievements are always based on the overturn of former ones which is inaccurate as well as inconclusive. From the Geocentric Theory to the Heliocentric Theory, or from Louis Victor de Broglie Wave to the Theory of Wave-particle Duality, even from the illusion of god’s creation to the Theory of Evolution, scientists make better cognitions by revising former inaccurate ones. In a word, the distrust of former information is compulsory in science, for it promotes the evolution of society. In conclusion, since most of the information we occupied is not worthy of confirmation, we should be vigilant to every piece of message we encountered. What’s more, with the spirit of skepticism, we can recognize the world in a lucid view, thus avoids us from being bamboozled by cloud of fake allegation, and form our own idea independently. |
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