False Cause Fallacy Question Pack - Free Download

George Washington had a sore throat. His doctors bled him five times - draining half his blood - because they believed bleeding cured illness. He died. Not from the infection. From the treatment.

The doctors weren't evil. They genuinely thought they were helping. Sometimes patients recovered after being bled, so they concluded the bleeding must have worked. They never stopped to ask: maybe those patients just got better on their own?

That's the False Cause: assuming one thing caused another just because it happened first. Your kids run on it. Lucky socks. Touched wood. In every "it worked last time" they'll ever be handed. This free Question Pack teaches them to look past what seems obvious and find the real reason.

What's in the free Question Pack:

• Discussion and research questions that get kids arguing about the bloodletting story - the productive kind of arguing
• A guided walk through how doctors spent 2,000 years taking credit for the recoveries and blaming the deaths on the disease - until someone finally checked
• 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 bloodletting 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 False Cause Fallacy 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.