Appeal to novelty is a fallacy where a person would claim that Subject B is better than Subject A because Subject B is newer, or that "newer is better". This fallacy is understandable because people find new discoveries everyday. Since new discoveries are made everyday, people are quick to think that the new thing will be better than the old thing because of the possibility that the new thing was made to fix the mistakes of the old thing.
An example of appeal to novelty is that "the newer versions of the iPhone will always be better then the older versions because smartphone technology becomes more advanced every year."
An example that people use to prove this argument wrong is New Coke, because even though it was made later than the older Coca-Cola, most people who have tasted New Coke say it tasted worse than Coca-Cola.
The opposite of appeal to novelty is appeal to tradition.
Traditional Chinese medicine
Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) is a branch of traditional medicine from China. It is at least 3,500 years old. Treatments include herbal medicine, acupuncture, cupping, massage, and exercise. Since the methods of TCM are different from Western medicine, it is hard to find evidence that shows how safe or good TCM really is.
Many of the most important ideas in TCM are based on the teachings of Daoism. Based on the teachings of TCM, it is important to balance the five elements in a person's body: wood, fire, earth, metal, and water. Each element also has something called "yin" and "yang", or opposite values that must exist alongside each other rather than to overcome the other. The way to balance the "yin" and "yang" is to strengthen "qi", or an invisible force that brings balance to the "yin" and "yang". Knowing the five elements and the "yin" and "yang" is important because each organ of the body is related to one of the five elements. It is important to strengthen a person's "qi" because balancing the "yin" and "yang" of a person's organs is important for people to be healthy. The different treatments in TCM are made to bring balance to the elements in a person's body.
These ideas are similar to, but not the same as, the four temperaments, which was an widely-believed theory in European medicine before scientific medicine was created.
Traditional medicine
Traditional medicine is a branch of medicine where treatment is based on knowledge passed on within certain cultures before the era of modern medicine.
Jani Batista
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She competed at the 2012 Summer Paralympics and 2016 Summer Paralympics, winning a bronze medal.
Zhao Meiling
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Su Limei
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Don McNeill
Don McNeill (1934 – June 27, 2015) was a Canadian journalist. He was a foreign correspondent for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and CBS News.
He was born in 1934. He was from St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador. He studied at Memorial University of Newfoundland, the Technical University of Nova Scotia, and Oxford University. At Oxford, he played basketball for an unofficial team he started.
While in the United Kingdom, he worked for the "Daily Mail". After returning home to Canada, McNeill began working for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. He was the CBC's correspondent in Washington, D.C. and worked for "Newsmagazine". He reported on the Vietnam War, the Watergate scandal, and the Iranian Revolution for the CBC. McNeil later moved to the United States, where he worked for CBS News until 1987. He was the CBS News correspondent at Moscow. He later worked for Christian Science Monitor Television.
He got a Rhodes Scholarship in 1958. He got a Nieman Fellowship in 1981. In 1984, he won the George Polk Award for Network Television Reporting for his "unusual glimpses of Soviet life". He was nominated for the 1988 News & Documentary Emmy Award for "Outstanding Interview/Interviewers - For Programs" as a producer and correspondent of "The Christian Science Monitor Reports". He won the 1990 News and Documentary Emmy Award for "Outstanding Informational, Cultural or Historical Programming (segments)" as a correspondent of a "World Monitor" segment on the Soviet Union.
He was a journalism teacher at Boston University.
His wife Sandra Allik produced her husband's Emmy-winning report. She once said that his husband's award was "a bigger deal than an Emmy".
He died on June 27, 2015 in Boston, aged 80.
Wang Yanan
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Glenna Matthews
Glenna Matthews is an American historian.
She graduated from Stanford University. She was an associate professor at Oklahoma State University. She taught at Stanford University, University of California, Berkeley, and University of California, Los Angeles.
Bethany Zummo
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She studied at Dublin High School. She played for University of Central Oklahoma. In 2020, she sewed masks and donated them.
Heli Susi
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Susi died on 8 June 2020 in Tallinn, aged 90.
Edmond O'Brien
Edmond O'Brien (September 10, 1915 – May 9, 1985) was an American actor. He received the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor and the Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actor for his supporting role in "The Barefoot Contessa" (1954). He also won a second Golden Globe and another Academy Award nomination for "Seven Days in May" (1964). He was born in New York City.
O'Brien died on May 9, 1985 from Alzheimer's disease-related problems in Inglewood, California at the age of 69.
Steve Bing
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Bing committed suicide on June 22, 2020 by jumping off his apartment building in Los Angeles, aged 55.
Phleng chāt Thai
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Thailand also has a royal anthem called "Sansœ̄n Phra Bāramī" (สรรเสริญพระบารมี).
Rules Don't Apply
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The movie is set in 1958 Hollywood. It is about the romantic relationship between a young actress and her driver, which is forbidden by their employer, Howard Hughes.
The movie had its world premiere on November 10, 2016, and was theatrically released in the United States on November 23, 2016, by 20th Century Fox.
It received mixed reviews and was a box office bomb.
Alden Ehrenreich