Alice is looking for an effective diet program. she is able to evaluate the claims of competing programs in an open-minded and careful fashion by the hallmark of scientific skepticism. a. using her critical thinking skillsb. being open to metaphysical reasoningc. using her common sense and intuitiond. remembering that extraordinary claims require ordinary evidence

a. using her critical thinking skills.

Explanation:

Scientific skepticism (spelled with a “k”, different form the more general definition of scepticism), refers to the application of the scientific method to certain facts or ideas, specially pseudoscience and paranormal claims, including alternative medical practices. Critical thinking skills are applied to discover the verifiability and falsifiability of certain claims.

answer; rational if melanie values sleep more highly than the benefits she expects to receive from attending the class;

the civil war started because of uncompromising differences between the free and slave states over the power of the national government to prohibit slavery in the territories that had not yet become states. when abraham lincoln won election in 1860 as the first republican president on a platform pledging to keep slavery out of the territories, seven slave states in the deep south seceded and formed a new nation, the confederate states of america. the incoming lincoln administration and most of the northern people refused to recognize the legitimacy of secession. they feared that it would discredit democracy and create a fatal precedent that would eventually fragment the no-longer united states into several small, squabbling countries.

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