An appeal to authority is a fallacy because it doesn’t actually mean anything. It’s false credibility. If the authority comes along with a bunch of well resear

An appeal to authority is a fallacy because it doesn’t actually mean anything. It’s false credibility. If the authority comes along with a bunch of well researched and documented data from experiences in the real world… that seems worth listening to. It’s no longer an appeal to authority. It’s just looking at evidence.