Congrats, that is one form of the fallacy. Another is treating the opinion of an authority as a fact. Doubly so in fields such as the dismal science. All scientific opinions should be defensible to c… (View Post)
The appeal to authority fallacy, also known as argumentum ad verecundiam, is a logical fallacy where someone claims that something is true simply because an authority figure said it, regardless of wh… (View Post)