Michael Shermer is an American science writer, historian of science, and founder of The Skeptics Society. Shermer is the author of books which delve into the ideas and beliefs behind UFO sightings and paranormal claims. One article regarding ‘The Flake Equation’ goes further into the topic of the paranormal and extraterrestrial life. Shermer did not create the equation himself, but rather discusses it regarding his studies and beliefs on a scientific level. The original equation, The Drake Equation, was created by the astronomer Frank Drake for calculating the number of extraterrestrial civilizations. This equation is used a joke on television series such as The Big Bang Theory, and by public figures such as cartoonist Randall Munroe to tease
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The internet is full of false news and sources that can change someone's views on modern media without them even knowing it’s wrong. If a single person see’s or views false news and believes it, they share that news to their friends and if their friends share that news it spreads further out until the false story seems believable and the real story seems like a hoax. With social media in play, many of it’s users are uninformed with news and take the propaganda given to them and assume it’s the only news they have. Robert M. Entman writes in his article “How the Media Affect What People Think” that “the political messages of newspapers are significantly associated with the substantive political attitudes of a national sample of their readers” (1). Entman continues to write “[the] media affect[s] what people think about, not what they think”( 1). With people thinking, they want to share their thoughts on whatever subject they’re discussing, it’s not the facts they’re sharing, but rather what they’re thinking about. One of the most popular social media news source, if it deserves to be called that, known as Buzzfeed takes any news and twists it to please their crowd of young uninformed millennials. This is not to say that only millennials read this form news, but a large majority read this news without the proper knowledge needed to understand the difference between true and
The internet is full of false news and sources that can change someone's views on modern media without them even knowing it’s wrong. If a single person see’s or views false news and believes it, they share that news to their friends and if their friends share that news it spreads further out until the false story seems believable and the real story seems like a hoax. With social media in play, many of it’s users are uninformed with news and take the propaganda given to them and assume it’s the only news they have. Robert M. Entman writes in his article “How the Media Affect What People Think” that “the political messages of newspapers are significantly associated with the substantive political attitudes of a national sample of their readers” (1). Entman continues to write “[the] media affect[s] what people think about, not what they think”( 1). With people thinking, they want to share their thoughts on whatever subject they’re discussing, it’s not the facts they’re sharing, but rather what they’re thinking about. One of the most popular social media news source, if it deserves to be called that, known as Buzzfeed takes any news and twists it to please their crowd of young uninformed millennials. This is not to say that only millennials read this form news, but a large majority read this news without the proper knowledge needed to understand the difference between true and