#appealtoauthority
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #appealtoauthority from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.
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Day-by-day usage
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Live pulse
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There are still quite a lot of people who think that whatever an authority, such as the government, says is accepted as true. Argumentum ad verecundiam or appeal to authority. Thankfully I'm not like that, especially since I'm knowledgeable
Far too few people understand the subtle difference between "trust the science" and "trust the experts". In fact, a horrifyingly large number of people don't see any difference at all. #AppealToAuthority
@strypey False. Though I might have phrased that with greater clarity. First, "appeal to authority" is one of several informal fallacies, that is, it doesn't automatically invalidate a statement, but it does suggest a weakness. Second, appe
#appealtoauthority across platforms
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