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Your honor I present Exhibit A


and Exhibit B


and I rest my case with Exhibit C

AndyC wrote:

jb2012 wrote:

Middle Age Russ wrote:There seems to be an epidemic in academic circles of professors taking stances and making statements about issues they have no personal experience with or understanding of. The media seems to flock to them lending an air of legitimacy to their views that is unwarranted.

For some reason credibility is granted to people with zero experience in the subjects they speak about simply because they have the title of professor, or have a doctorate.

As you probably know, that's a pretty good example of the logical fallacy called 'Appeal to authority".

http://www.nizkor.org/features/fallacie ... ority.html

Middle Age Russ wrote:There seems to be an epidemic in academic circles of professors taking stances and making statements about issues they have no personal experience with or understanding of. The media seems to flock to them lending an air of legitimacy to their views that is unwarranted.