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		crazydoggers on June 27, 2018 [flagged] \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The impossibility—and the necessity—of distinguish... The relevance of the authority does not matter. If a well respected zoologist claims there are 24 chromosomes instead of 23, we shouldn't believe him. Read the wikipedia article on Argument from authority before making such comments.

emodendroket on June 27, 2018 [–]

If I am presented with two contradictory statements, one by an expert and one not, and have no particular reason to believe one or the other, then I'm going to guess the expert is correct. Wouldn't you?

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