phil dis 2 wk4

Explore a legendary hoax from the Museum of Hoaxes. Describe the elements and details of the hoax. Applying what you know about how to evaluate arguments, pretend you were presented with this hoax and outline the steps you would take to evaluate it. How does this hoax encourage critically evaluating sources of information? Explain three methods by which you can prevent yourself from being fooled by hoaxes or other sources of misinformation.

500 words and three other references

Museum of Hoaxes (http://www.hoaxes.org) 

• Students will analyze hoaxes from the past with the goal of learning how to evaluate information such that they will not fall into error when they analyze future information.