Extra vocabulary (week 6) : Taken from 'Coffin Nails' + Mass Media
encourage ⁄ lifestyle ⁄ athlete ⁄ role model ⁄ concrete steps ⁄ to bring in [a rule, law or product ] ⁄ to outlaw ⁄ popular ⁄ environment ⁄ state owned ⁄ industry ⁄ a clash (conflict) of interests ⁄ to comment on ⁄ commercial ⁄
fact
opinion
factoid
propaganda
a grain of truth
hidden truth
belief
wish
wishful thinking
doubt
skeptic ⁄ sceptic
cynic
cynicism
deception
half-truth
partial-truth
credulous
gullible
knowledge from authority
knowledge from direct observation
knowledge from experimental deduction
knowledge from inference
Ptolemy (150 A.D.) ⁄ Copernicus (1473 – 1543) ⁄ Galileo Galilei (1564 -1642) ⁄ Isaac Newton (1642-1727) ⁄