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You're really going to base your entire argument around the purported statements of your doctor friend whose identity, statements, and views cannot be verified?
by potatolicious 14y ago
You're really going to base your entire argument around the purported statements of your doctor friend whose identity, statements, and views cannot be verified?
You'ved made multiple comments in this thread that amount to exactly "nuh-uh! my doctor friend said!"
In the spirit of yesterday's fallacy thread, this is both a (bad) appeal to authority and using anecdote as data.
- up_and_up 14y agoHere is some 'evidence': http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=101041 http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPag... "The number of reviews indicating that the modern biomedical interventions show either no effect or insufficient evidence is surprisingly high. Intterrater disagreements suggest a surprising degree of subjective interpretation involved in systematic reviews. Where patterns of disagreement emerged between authors and readers, authors tended to be more optimistic in their conclusions than the readers."