Skeptophilia

Fighting Gullibility with Sarcasm, 6 days a week

Showing posts with label appeal to authority. Show all posts
Showing posts with label appeal to authority. Show all posts
Saturday, August 5, 2023

Hero worship

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I got into a curious exchange with someone on Twitter a couple of days ago about Richard Dawkins's recent statement that "biologic...
Tuesday, February 9, 2021

Fooling the experts

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I was bummed to hear about the death of the inimitable Cloris Leachman  a week and a half ago at the venerable age of 94.  Probably most fam...
Thursday, October 15, 2020

Life at the center

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Appeal to Authority is simultaneously one of the simplest, and one of the trickiest, of the fallacies. The simple part is that one shouldn...
Monday, July 25, 2016

Fooling the experts

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Today we consider what happens when you blend Appeal to Authority with the Dunning-Kruger Effect. Appeal to Authority, you probably know, ...
Saturday, May 16, 2015

The problem with Seymour

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A few months ago, I made the point that the fallacy called appeal to authority  is not as simple as it sounds . On the surface, it's a...
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Monday, March 16, 2015

Science-friendly illogic

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I usually don't blog about what other people put in their blogs.  This kind of thing can rapidly devolve into a bunch of shouted opinio...
Monday, February 9, 2015

The random comment department

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Two news stories I came across this weekend are mostly interesting in juxtaposition. First, a  paper in the Journal of Advertising ,  by I...
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Gordon Bonnet
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