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I trust Einstein and everyone else on the relativity theory. I trust Andrew Wiles and the dozen of people who understood his proof.

I trust my doctor.

You do too.

Of course, I was criticising the way they argue, a meta-argument, not the argument itself. I have no interest in discussing the methodology or result of this study.



> I have no interest in discussing the methodology or result of this study.

Gotcha, so you're defending the people who made the study, but not the study itself, i.e. appealing to authority.

> I was criticising the way they argue,

As I am to you.


Please, I beg you, ask a LLM or read on Wiki what appealing to authority means


I know what it means from more reliable sources than LLMs and wikis. Maybe you should try checking a more reliable source, yourself. Or state what you actually think I'm getting wrong about it, instead of appealing to the authority of LLMs and wikis!


There is no appeal to authority fallacy when then subject of the appeal is also the authority's area of expertise

Ask and trust Einstein on general relativity --> no appeal to authority

Ask and trust Einstein on why drugs are bad just because he, Einstein the physics genius, says so --> appeal to authority




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