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Originally Posted by G1911
No, an appeal to authority is a fallacy. Claiming it is not is a straw man.
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It is a logical fallacy in the abstract I agree, but I am not appealing to authority. I am citing the CONTENT of the study and asking why you disagree with its apparent conclusions. Certainly one can consider the credentials of the authors as supporting the conclusions without being guilty of a naked appeal to authority argument.
If you say something and I point out it's inconsistent with Einstein's theory of relativity, have I only appealed to authority?
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