Podcast: Hunting Humbug 101 Tutorial 25: Appeal to Authority

Sorry for the delay in this podcast. We were busy. We're very important people you know. In this podcast we look at the fallacy Appeal to Authority.  It is arguably one of the hardest to identify - or rather, easiest to Red Flag Faux Pas . We also discuss the most vile, sickening, morally bankrupt and inane version of this fallacy - Appeal to Celebrity. Examples from 9-11 troofers, anthropogenic climate change, Monty Python and Team America

Some other links mentioned in the podcast

• 911 in plane site 
• An Appeal to a Lack of Authority - Ian Plimer - Ben McNeil ("Climate Change Expert") on Sky News

• Off topic - on the last Skeptics' Guide to the Universe they discussed the problem of induction: http://www.theskepticsguide.org/archive/podcastinfo.aspx?mid=1&pid=195
• I wrote an article about this for Philosophy Now. I've linked to it. Logical vs Rational and Occam's razor.
  

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