I need examples of media manipulation, specifically examples of appeal to authority fallacy, where an article cites an "expert" or "study" without providing the expert's identity or the study's source. Can some anons jump in with examples?
Need Examples of Media Bullshit
Ian Harris
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Colton Allen
>cdc says, so therefore
>fact checkers say
>feds say
Etc
Isaac Reed
Are you looking for links, or just cases? You'll find literally hundreds of examples of these via "experts say", "sources familiar with Donald Trump's thinking", World Health Organization appeals, etc. It's extremely common in modern (((journalism))).
Joshua Robinson
Any specific examples like screencaps and shit?
Unfortunately, a lot of the examples I found actually DO provide a study or name of an expert, but most of the time it's just stupid correlations which SUGGEST a trend (eg. more people die of heart attacks during winter months means climate change causes heart attack). That doesn't count as appeal to authority though, it's a different kind of fallacy.
Henry Robinson
i'm looking for specific links, yes
preferably those which actually fit the definition of appeal to authority, meaning they just cite an "expert" but don't actually give you any empirical evidence.
Leo Scott
Parker Howard
Asher Wright
If you're looking at empirical or non empirical data and using that as a reference to support your argument, then that's not appeal to authority.
Appeal to authority would be "the CDC says the vaccine is safe, so it is." If i were to say "this study correlates heart failure to the vaccine, so they may be linked", then that's not an appeal to authority. It's my subjective interpretation of a data table.
Angel Gonzalez
Sorry, I should specify that i'm looking for appeal to authority fallacy in particular
other examples are welcome of course, but i'm making this resource package as part of a project and I want to redpill my audience as much as possible.
Jonathan Lee
Jace Scott
Ethan Russell
yeah exactly that's what I mean
a lot of the examples I found weren't even appeal to authority they were just misusing statistics
i need actual examples of appeal to authority by the media like "study suggests winter vagina causes blood clots" but they don't show the study being referred to
Anthony Moore
Logan Richardson
Stupid fucking bitch. Those headlines aren't mutually exclusive. Bad propaganda. No shekels for you this week.
Dylan Bailey
Anyone who suggests something is true because X or Y says so. It's fallacious because you're having someone make your argument for you.
John Mitchell
that's not even a real article i can't find any archive link to it
Ryder Gutierrez
Michael Ward
Carson Evans
The entire inconvenient truth made by al gore is a giant appeal to authority fallacy proven incorrect
Jacob Wright
i know what appeal to authority is, i just can't find any examples of it in media
my definition of appeal to authority has 2 key traits
>1. the authority mentioned is vague and unspecified (eg. experts suggest, source close to x claims)
>2. no actual empirical evidence is provided (so if an article fulfils criteria #1 but actually provides a valid source or name of authority it is not considered appeal to authority)
a lot of articles fit #1 but not #2, even if the "evidence" provided is just cherry picking stats
Alexander Torres
Experts say "Who cares? Just go with it."
Carter King
I don't have any specific examples, but i'm sure you can find some.
Zachary Baker
Jordan Myers
Jack Lewis
i tried searching 4plebs archives but everything is just examples of doublethink (which i already have plenty of examples of)
mainly i tried searching keywords like "climate change heart attacks" (you know, since the jews keep shilling that) and I did find a few examples but all of them actually did have a bunch of bogus studies behind them