Appeal to Authority: When trusting experts becomes a logical fallacy

Описание: We should trust experts, but not based solely on the fact that they're authority figures. We need to first check their credentials, check to see if their opinions are shared by other experts, and whether they could be biased. Avoid this "Appeal to Authority" logical fallacy by watching this video!

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Notes and Additional Resources:

Some examples of appeal to authority fallacy from ThoughtCo. - https://www.thoughtco.com/logical-fal...

Another source that explains appeal to authority - https://www.developgoodhabits.com/app...

More on Linus Pauling and vitamin C - https://www.science.org/content/blog-....

These are the links to the three articles that I pulled quotes from on vitamin C follow ups -
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9350474/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23440...
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...

Tips on how to find the scientific consensus on a topic from Journalist Resource - https://journalistsresource.org/media...

Information on a lawsuit brought against Dannon for an advertising campaign for Activia Yoghurt - https://archive.nytimes.com/mediadeco...

Link to the page on the CO2 Coalition website with Gregory Wrightstone's qualifications - https://co2coalition.org/teammember/g...

This is the transcript from the Pennsylvania House of Representatives Public Hearing - https://www.legis.state.pa.us/WU01/LI...

Image Credit

Linus Pauling, Nobel Foundation, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...

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