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Is it an argument from authority or an argument from experience?
by prometheon1 3y ago
Is it an argument from authority or an argument from experience?
- pazimzadeh 3y agoExperience would mean he's taken out a bunch of people's appendices and nothing bad has happened. Which still wouldn't prove that the appendix has no purpose at all.
- glfharris 3y agoHe's a pathologist, so if he has removed someone's appendix they'd probably be dead. Pedantry aside, your point still stands.
- killjoywashere 3y agoI've done a fair number of autopsies and have never even heard of someone ending up on the autopsy table secondary to an appendectomy. I'm sure it's happened, but, on balance, if the docs say you need an appendectomy, they're probably right.
- glfharris 3y agoJust making a dumb joke that if it's the pathologist that's the person removing an appendix, they're probably dead already.
- epgui 3y agoExperience can mean a lot of things.