In all honesty the "technique" is simply an appeal to authority (not necessarily a fallacy it turns out * ). The technique isn't that "he said it" it's that "he

In all honesty the "technique" is simply an appeal to authority (not necessarily a fallacy it turns out * ). The technique isn't that "he said it" it's that "he said it". E.g. if I scribble some nonsense on the side of a paper almost nobody will pay attention one way or another. Look no further than religion to see how apparently banal things get passed on for millennia, and even more of them are attached to those same religious figures simply because they are "the authority". * pun intended