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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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