Well, here's a book http://books.google.com/books?id=-HTQY_b1_84C&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_navlinks_s http://books.google.com/books?id=-HTQY_b1_84C&print

Well, here's a book http://books.google.com/books?id=-HTQY_b1_84C&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_navlinks_s http://books.google.com/books?id=-HTQY_b1_84C&printsec=f... Search for ad verecundiam for a discussion on the matter. Really, what he's doing is an opposite of argument from authority, and I think the author suggests that is 1) Sometimes appropriate, and 2) Sometimes ad hominem. In my eyes, the PhD-holding article-writer is sufficiently credentialed to write mild articles on mild subjects. To say he's wrong because he didn't go to a sufficiently good school is a rather obvious personal attack. For what it's worth, I initially typed in "your comment is 95 percent name-calling" to parrot him, but then changed it. I mean, it was just so laughable that he went on and on about the guy's fricking school. and then made the insane charge that the author was mostly name-calling. Geez.