Ethos Pathos And Logos For A Conspiracy

These two historical examples give evidence of how conspirators can misinterpret information, and unknowingly use the conjunction fallacy to support their conspiracy. Since there is evidence of conspiratorial thinkers being victim to this, it is probable that Herndon may have been subject to this idea as well. This would explain in part, why an educated scientist would believe a conspiracy that doesn’t agree with science.

Herndon’s appeals of logos, ethos, and pathos also prove how readers of his article are enticed and more likely to believe his article. The audience may be swayed by either three, yet each are flawed in his article. Each of these appeals allows for the idea of the chemtrail conspiracy to become popularly entertained, even

Even so, “some conspirators tend to focus on “the way in which ideas are believed and advocated [rather] than with the truth or falsity of their content” (Hofstader). Although this article lacks evidence, it is still able to target less-educated people into believing the conspiracy. As they are more susceptible to conspiracy ideas, the lack of evidence may elude them. Herndon writes this article in a scholarly journal as a scientific paper, which allows it to appear more factual since scientific journals require a great amount of evidence and approval by other

Our culture has now evolved to focus intently on conspiracies theories and has distanced itself from academics and scientific proof. As a result, our knowledge may be reduced to only our beliefs. The distrust of government and authority has spread to distrust of science and scientific facts. Distrust of scientific knowledge is not only found evident in the chemtrail narrative but has been expanded to other important scientific issues. Public discussion of science has therefore been redirected as negative and against its findings. This is in part due to the recent increase of writings about “distrust of science from professionals in different fields such as journalists, scientists, physicians, psychologists, and sociologists. “While this work contains valuable insights and perspectives on the problem, many authors make sweeping generalizations and lump together disparate questions that involve different methodologies and types of evidence” (Kabat). The infiltration of conspiracies in the academic world is causing contradictory viewpoints to clash with one another. As these viewpoints increase, the truth will only become more muddled. “Rejection of critical probing when the results are inconvenient, a tolerance for “alternative facts,” and an ahistorical and partisan-grounded attitude toward (scientific) issues are all manifestations of this trend, which is particularly severe”