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basically this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_authority https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_authority combined with a wobbly: https://en.
by fwn 10y ago
basically this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_authority https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_authority
combined with a wobbly:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reductio_ad_absurdum https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reductio_ad_absurdum
edit: sooo, why the downvotes? You see that this is exactly what he did, right?
That topic seems so boiled up, reasonable, therefore non-faulty discussion doesn't even appear to be a goal.
- chimprich 10y agoThere's nothing wrong with an argument from authority - the problem with such an argument is when the expert is being cited from outside their sphere of expertise, for example. In this case the experts in the field are in agreement with a very strong scientific consensus based on a very solid body of data.