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You completely ignored the links I provided but want me to respond to yours? What else have you ignored? The comparisons to Stack and twa flight 800. The fact there are two variation on the appeal to authority fallacy. Let's provide another example for you bitches to ignore. In a criminal trial the prosecutor is the leading authority. Can prosecutors simply say what happened and send people to jail with no evidence? By your logic judges and juries should simply believe what the prosecution says without asking for evidence. You truly are a scary breed of stoopid.
When giving "examples," the ones chosen should make sense. Yours don't, fucktard.
A prosecutor is an authority in some things. So is the judge. So is the defense attorney. so are the witnesses who were there and thus in a position to speak with more authority on the events than any of the other folks just mentioned, you asshole.
If a lawyer at a trial calls an "expert witness" on some matter of importance to determining the facts, that expert gets cross examined not just on his general expertise, but also on any biases AND on WHETHER or NOT he happens to be talking from a position of any specific knowledge of the relevant facts in dispute. The expert is not called for the purpose, you moron, of engaging in the fallacy of an appeal to authority. You don't have the foggiest goddamn notion about the term of logic you keep erroneously bandying about, you menstrual blood clot imbecile.
But when the FBI, working with the NTSB, engages in a hands on investigation AT the location, their observations and conclusions ARE relevant and their expertise is clearly genuine; and it is NOT in any way a fallacy to seek their factual testimony and their expert conclusions precisely BECAUSE they have the requisite expertise.
AGAIN, you are a lying imbecile.![]()
What you are attempting to argue (but for some reason you remain far too dishonest to use the correct terminology) is that they may be "lying." Anything is possible, but that one is a fucking stretch and there are no sound reasons to speculate along those stupid lines, you asshole.
Your argument still has NOTHING to do with the fallacy of "appeal to authority."
Fallacious appeals to authority take the general form of:
1. Person (or people) P makes claim X. Therefore, X is true.
(1. FBI says 95% flight 93 recovered. Therefore it is true 95% has been recovered)
A fundamental reason why the Appeal to Authority can be a fallacy is that a proposition can be well supported only by facts and logically valid inferences. But by using an authority, the argument is relying upon testimony, not facts. A testimony is not an argument and it is not a fact."
Http://www.atheism.about.com/od/logicalfallacies/a/authority.htm
Ignore it again Snitch Bitch.
Wrong again douche bag lying pussy drippings.
Testimony about a fact is -- in effect -- a fact, for purposes of reconstructing an event.
The fallacy does not lie in the fact that an authority on the topic is cited. The fallacy occurs (if at all) when the alleged expert is in fact not sufficiently expert on the point for which he or she is cited AS an expert.
Ignore that again you random rancid lying pussy.