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Part 1: What do gorilla suits and blowfish fallacies have to do with climate change?

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What do gorilla suits and blowfish fallacies have to do with climate change?
Fallacies are error that occur in reasoning among individuals to deter or undermine the

logics in an argument. The fallacies distract people from an important information through the

use of irrelevant information. The fallacies are identified to their lack of evidence and are

irrelevant and illegimate. The blowfish and gorilla suits fallacies are examples of fallacies. It is

ridiculous how they are related to climate change. The fallacies are a disruption to something

more than that which it communicates. The gorilla suits is a game for the selective attention test

which is devised to see if selected attention can be tampered with. The video requires that one

focus on ball switching between those in white T-shirts while counting them. After the counting,

the participants are then asked to tell if at all they noticed a gorilla passing through. In most

cases, the outcome was that none of them saw the gorilla move past them (Cook January 2017).

The selective attention is proof that fallacies can obstruct people from noticing the key and

important things through obstruction by what is less important. The video teaches on selective

attention that helps us avoid disruption.

The other part of the fallacies of interest is the blowfish fallacy. It is a fish metaphor that

is applied to distract people from necessary scientific information. The method focus on

inconsequential aspects of scientific research. It blows out the picture to cause distraction from

the important scientific findings. Persuading people to focus on hard things can make them miss

the gorilla. The research on the cause of global warming in the globe has led to agreement by

researchers that humans are the leading causes of global warming. However the idea has been

rejected by the politicians newspapers and conservative tanks (Cook January 2017). The critics

focus on small details on the methodology that have little or no effect on the results. The critics

fail to acknowledge the multiple independent studies replicated in the studies.

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The blow-fish through a journalist David Rose has been used to distract the scientific

research on climate global warming. Rose claimed that the flows on NOAA records on the

temperature caused a doubt. However, the data attacked by Rose had been replicated by several

research groups independently. This indicates how much a misleading information can spread to

distract many.

The climate gorilla is an evidence of how much distracting techniques tampers with

important information from them people. The distraction are developed through a simple or a

part of information distortion to attract the attention of the people from what is important (Cook

January 2017). They fail to notice that science is broad and removal of a single evidence does not

distort the initial information due to the attachment of other supportive evidences to each

evidence.

An example of fallacy is a case of an information spreading faster than SARS-COV-2

that Covid-19 causes infertility. The critics based their reasons on lawsuits related to Bill Gates

and the vaccines in Africa. The case is classified under the red herring. It is an irrelevant

message meant to disrupt people from the facts this ought to be addressed in terms of the safety

of the vaccine to humans rather than including an irrelevant information linking it to a law suit

(Fuchs 2021). Inclusion of the Bill Gates lawsuits distracts readers from the important concern

on vaccines relation to infertility.

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References

Cook, J. (2017, January). Understanding and countering climate science denial. In Journal and

Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales (Vol. 150, No. 465/466, pp. 207-

219).

Fuchs, C. (2021). Bill Gates Conspiracy Theories as Ideology in the Context of the COVID-19

Crisis. In Communicating COVID-19. Emerald Publishing Limited.