# False Cause Question Pack: Critical Thinking, Comic, Comprehension **Price:** $0.00 AUD **Seller:** TeachBuySell Seller **Year Levels:** noYearLevel **Subjects:** english ## Description (seller-submitted) George Washington developed a throat infection in 1799. His doctors bled him five times in one day, removing roughly half his blood. He died that evening. The False Cause - also known as post hoc ergo propter hoc , Latin for "after this, therefore because of this" - is the mistake of assuming that because one thing followed another, the first thing caused the second. It sounds like reasoning. It's mostly just storytelling. You hear it everywhere: "I wore my lucky socks. We won. The socks did it." "I started drinking green smoothies and my cold cleared up." "I changed my shampoo the week I got promoted." A sequence isn't a cause. But it's a very satisfying story, and most people never ask the harder question. This free expansion pack teaches you to ask "how do we actually know one thing caused the other - and not something else?" - through a true historical story, real-life examples, and activities that feel nothing like homework. It's the companion to the full False Cause Activity Pack and a free preview of the upcoming book, 24 Fallacies and the Historical Disasters That Followed. ⭐ Rated 5.0 by people who now win arguments THE STORY INSIDE For two thousand years, bloodletting was medicine. Doctors believed the body held four humours - blood, phlegm, bile - and sickness meant one was out of balance. The fix: drain the blood. The logic was simple. Treatment came first, recovery came after, so the treatment caused the recovery. Nobody systematically counted the patients who got worse. In 1799, George Washington developed a throat infection. His doctors bled him five times in a single day, removing roughly half his blood. He died that evening. The infection his body might have cleared on its own had been joined by a second problem: massive blood loss. But the false cause held. Bloodletting continued. It wasn't until the 1830s that a French physician named Dr. Pierre Louis did something unusual: he counted. Comparing patients who received bloodletting to those who didn… [truncated] ## Learning Needs growthMindset, personalDevelopment, socialSkills --- View on TeachBuySell: https://teachbuysell.com.au/l/699ea8b9-f76e-4abb-8a57-a64d0c9a6c49 Marketplace: https://teachbuysell.com.au