The beginning to the Cognitive Dissonance article when it describes the way the joggers who stretched all the time before they ran found out that stretching does not doing anything for them they came back saying that it was a lie just the scientist could have a “finding.” This reminded me of the summer before my Junior year in high school when I had to read “A State of Fear” by Michael Crichton and watch “The Inconvenient Truth” done by Al Gore for my AP Biology class I was to take. Both men were on opposite sides on the issue of Global Warming, we had to write an essay stating which man we sided with and why we chose this side. Most of the entire class sided with Michael Crichton. At the end of his book he had many charts and graphs that had not skipped dates or skewed information such as Al Gore’s presentation. He also had all of his resources listed which we were allowed to look up and see what the article was truly about. Cognitive Dissonance to me sounds like when a person finds out a startling piece of information like stretching before running does not prevent you from future injuries, they can either take it in three ways which is accept it and change accordingly, change one of your cognitions or stay and add to the consonant cognitions. When watching these videos every person has this option to change and help out our economy, environment, and way of living. We should act and make a change but unfortunately not everyone feels the same way and they will continue going about their business as if nothing will happen, nothing will go wrong.