An expert opinion, or an appeal to authority is often used for the basis of an argument: if someone says “x” is true, and that someone is an expert, then “x” must be true (Doos, n.d .). In other words, the arguer argues that he is right because he has the opinion of an expert.
Historically, opinion on the appeal to authority has been divided: it is listed as a non-fallacious argument as often as a fallacious argument in various sources, as some hold that it can be a strong or at least valid defeasible argument and others that it is weak or an outright fallacy.
Credentials no longer represent expertise, so I'd be wary following the opinions of the "educated". Kulldorff is out of Harvard, which had a biological agent stolen by the Chinese in 2019 and also is where Bill Gates went to school.
Best bet is to attain the raw data and try to get smart enough to understand it. Nature started spinning their analyses after 9/11 and Science fell to corruption in the twenty-teens.
An expert opinion, or an appeal to authority is often used for the basis of an argument: if someone says “x” is true, and that someone is an expert, then “x” must be true (Doos, n.d .). In other words, the arguer argues that he is right because he has the opinion of an expert.
Historically, opinion on the appeal to authority has been divided: it is listed as a non-fallacious argument as often as a fallacious argument in various sources, as some hold that it can be a strong or at least valid defeasible argument and others that it is weak or an outright fallacy.
Credentials no longer represent expertise, so I'd be wary following the opinions of the "educated". Kulldorff is out of Harvard, which had a biological agent stolen by the Chinese in 2019 and also is where Bill Gates went to school.
Best bet is to attain the raw data and try to get smart enough to understand it. Nature started spinning their analyses after 9/11 and Science fell to corruption in the twenty-teens.
“Both systems place randomized controlled trials (RCT) at the highest level and case series or expert opinions at the lowest level.”
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3124652/
They know that expert opinion is low level.
Nice link, using expert opinion to show that expert opinion is weak.
Sorry for busting your balls. It is a good link. I downloaded the PDF.