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Citing someone's Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel is probably the worst kind of an appeal to authority.
by unmole 8y ago
Citing someone's Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel is probably the worst kind of an appeal to authority.
- beat 8y agoExtraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. Most of us trust the Nobel Prize to be a mostly-neutral arbiter of excellence in various fields. That means it is not the worst kind of appeal to authority, but rather the best - referencing a well-known and widely trusted source. Can you give us a reason we shouldn't trust it in the general case, since your claim extends to the general, not the specific?
- 77pt77 8y ago> Most of us trust the Nobel Prize to be a mostly-neutral arbiter of excellence in various fields. Even if that were true, there is no Nobel Prize in Economics. It's a completely different prize, given by a different institution, that was associated much later with the Noble prizes.