>>14855477>appeal to authorityBingo!
This is what Critical Thinking was supposed to teach, and thus now why Critical Thinking has been neutered to teach that authority is not to be discredited. I am talking about the general high school course called Critical Thinking some newfags took, myself included, during the 2010s.
They did teach us about the fallacy of Appeal to Authority, but spent the rest of the course telling us why we need to always reference to an authoritative source if we want to be considered 'legit'. It was literally, subliminally teaching that eye-witness, anecdotal stories, and even evidence-supported individual accounts, should not be taken seriously in face of words backed by (((publishing))).
