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[–] GhostshipResearch ago 

And I forgot to address your other point: argumentum ad verecundiam is only fallacious if the authority is not an expert.

The problem here is the majority of contributors are not authorities and are either unable or unwilling to acknowledge actual expertise. As such, the very people guilty of committing the logical fallacy of Appeal to Authority are the ones accusing the experts of it. Priceless.

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[–] Infopractical ago 

You really just said that appeal to authority is only fallacious if the authority itself is false?

Okay, you just lost all credibility as an educated person of any kind.

Thanks and have a nice day.

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[–] GhostshipResearch ago 

You may want to actually take a college-level course in Logic. Hell man, you could even Google it.

Yes, the logical fallacy of Appeal to Authority is only a fallacy if the person is not an actual authority.

Otherwise, complete morons who know absolutely nothing about what they're arguing about could simply say in response to an expert who is correcting them "you are Appealing to Authority, so even though I have no freakin' clue what I'm saying, I'm right and you're wrong".

As such, you never had any credibility, and remain unable to discredit me without some actual facts or subject matter expertise.