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Appeals to authority are always deductively fallacious; even a legitimate authority speaking on his area of expertise may affirm a falsehood, so no testimony of any authority is guaranteed to be true.

source: http://www.logicalfallacies.info/relevance/appeals/appeal-to...




Though to be fair you just used an appeal to authority to support your statement...




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