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Message: <blockquote data-quote="triqui" data-source="post: 5525691" data-attributes="member: 57948">The irony is this sarcasm is actually a valid thought process for most people that dabble into superstition. They go with ideas like "some guy had cancer, went to Lourdes, and got healed, therefore, visiting Lourdes heal". Without using their brain further, this sounds right. Using logic, it's a "post hoc ergo propter hoc" fallacy: two things can come one after the other, without being related. I was born, and then one week later the Socialist Republic of Vietnam was founded. So, based on this, I could claim that my birth was the reason Vietnam went commie. Fact is: there are like 4 or 5 people that the Pope acknowledges as "miracle healed in Lourdes". Lourdes get 5 million visitors per year. Even if one of them heal each year (which is not the case), they chance to spontanously heal in Lourdes isstatistically inferior to the chance to spontanously heal in any other place (which sounds logic, as probably the share of people heavily afflicted by their disease is higher, thus slanting the statistic).People tend to have a huge lack of reasoning skills and logic abilitiy. We, as a whole, are prone to believe anything that make us feel warm, safe, or interested. Surprisingly, it also makes us prone to believe things that make us feel smarter than everyone else: "aha, I'm the only one that notices how Japan earthquake is related to some test of new weaponry developed by the secret agency that desintegrated the Twin Towers and made a fake video about Moon Landing in the 60s!! I'm sooo cool"Yeah, you are. Soooooo cool. You are the kind of people that thinks that buying big trousers makes you fat. I mean... every single fat man out there buy big trousers, so there must be a conection, doesn't it?</blockquote>

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