Part I:
The “106 Science Claims” is the essay that talk about the scientific knowledge that informed by social media like advertisements. The main purpose of the essay is to fix some of the most-heard misleading knowledge. The readers of the essay supposed to be all the educated American readers and those interested in popular science. Or on the other words, the readers supposed to be all the people that have been mislead by the media. The structure of the essay is coordinate structure. Though out the essay, each paragraph is analyzing if the advertisement is misleading us. The claim of the essay is that the majority of the claims came from advertisers and they probably feed more science to Americans than anyone else. Even though the companies have obligation to tell the truth, but they have a marketing imperative to put the best possible spin on it. Although I have never done a survey for that, but to my experiences, I am persuaded by his argument. After reading his essay, I found I have heard most of the misleading from the media around me. The main concerns of companies are whether their advertisements sound attractive enough instead of if they are misleading or not.
Part II:
Pure Water: Misleading. Nowadays, almost every water producers are willing to tag their water production as Pure Water. But there is no absolutely Pure Thing exists in this world. Also, even if you remove all impurities, water will reacts with itself to form ions and small clusters so that we will never get only pure H2O molecules.(Link)
Detergent: Oversold. Some of the companies said their detergent are capable of cleaning all kinds of dirties. There is no any kind of detergent capable of cleaning all the dirties. Especially when both detergent and dirties appear to be acid or alkaline.
Tea: Bogus. Some of the tea are labeled absolutely nature and without any elements. Everything in the world is made by elements. (Link)
WRT 102.22: Science & Society 