Appeal to Ignorance Question Pack - Free Download

They sprayed it on children. They said it was safe. Not because it was safe - but because nobody could prove it wasn't.

That's the Appeal to Ignorance: treating "nobody's proven it false" as proof it's true - or "nobody's proven it true" as proof it's false. Your kids use it more than they realise. In every "well, you can't prove it DIDN'T happen" they'll ever be handed. This free Question Pack teaches them the difference between "we don't know yet" and "it must be true."

This free Question Pack uses that story to show kids exactly how this fallacy works in the real world, and why "we don't have proof it's wrong" is never the same as "it's right."

What's in the free Question Pack:

• Discussion and research questions that get kids arguing about the DDT story - the productive kind of arguing
• A guided walk through how "no proof of harm" kept a poison on the shelves for thirty years - until one investigator asked what we actually knew
• An answer sheet, so you can run it at the dinner table or in a classroom with zero prep

The deal, stated plainly

We teach people to spot manipulation, so it would be a bit rich to hide ours. This pack is free because it's the best advertisement we have. You hand over your email, we send the download, and every so often we'll email you about new comics, book and our card game. Unsubscribe the moment we get boring. 

One email. Check your spam folder - our goodies have a talent for landing there. 

What the free pack doesn't include

The fully illustrated DDT story. The Duchess & Bruno comic. The Spot-the-Fallacy hunt through real ads and headlines. The Code Breaker, the Draw Your Own Comic page, and the hidden Gizmo kids go feral trying to find.

All of that lives in the Appeal to Ignorance Activity Pack - a 20-page printed booklet, rated 5.0 by teachers and parents on Etsy and TPT. 

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "My kids absolutely adore the characters and story! It reminds us of horrible histories. I haven't found anything like this pack before." - Sandra

It's one of 24. Every pack takes one fallacy, one historical disaster and one comic - and turns them into a kid who is very hard to fool.