{"id":18602,"date":"2024-12-16T05:42:17","date_gmt":"2024-12-16T05:42:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/social.coldstreams.com\/?p=18602"},"modified":"2025-08-20T22:00:58","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T22:00:58","slug":"the-appeal-to-authority-argument","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/2024\/12\/16\/the-appeal-to-authority-argument\/","title":{"rendered":"The &#8220;Appeal to Authority&#8221; argument"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This did not go over well<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"612\" height=\"521\" src=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-192.png\" alt=\"Appeal to Authority\" class=\"wp-image-18603\" srcset=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-192.png 612w, https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-192-600x511.png 600w, https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-192-317x270.png 317w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 612px) 100vw, 612px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>A valid argument is based solely on the credentials of the person making the argument. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Actually, no: Bertrand Russell noted long ago, the validity of argument is based on facts and logic &#8211; <em>not based upon who says something<\/em>. Louks&#8217;s argument is an Appeal to Authority and Credentialism &#8211; and worse as she seems to step into name calling, implying others lacking a Ph.D. in her field are dumb.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Another academic has this <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ProfBZZZ\/status\/1868605270857064843\">feedback<\/a> &#8211; notes that academics who live off of public resources should not discount the public that feeds them:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"579\" height=\"273\" src=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-193.png\" alt=\"Another academic on the appeal to authority and credentialism argument\" class=\"wp-image-18612\" srcset=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-193.png 579w, https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-193-573x270.png 573w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 579px) 100vw, 579px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Appeal to Authority Argument: New PhD says others have &#8220;no authority&#8221; to question her work, implying lay people are stupid. Hmmmm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,353],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-appeal-to-authority","category-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18602\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}