Those examples of appeal to authority are a lot more nuanced than I’ve generally seen. It’s generally more blunt, like “we interviewed 5 PhDs about climate chan

Those examples of appeal to authority are a lot more nuanced than I’ve generally seen. It’s generally more blunt, like “we interviewed 5 PhDs about climate change and they all state that there’s no good evidence to support it.” Those PhDs however, were not experts in a domain that could validate an assertion on climate change. The more nuanced versions in the examples make an uncritical assertion, based on an appeal to an authority in a closely related domain, to overturn an established set of “validated facts” (for the domain, say what you want about a religious creed).