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Old 07-25-2006, 10:49 PM
John Feeney John Feeney is offline
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Default Re: Has the US gone communist yet? It\'s hard to tell.

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Im not misapplying anything. You are confusing appeal to authority and circumstantial ad hominen.

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Copernicus, you are. To take one more shot at it, it is a fallacy to say "Because he's paid by an oil company to deny anthropogenic global warming (and does not do his own peer reviewed research on the topic), his argument against it, has to be wrong." It is not a fallacy to say, "Because he's paid by an oil company to deny anthropogenic global warming (and does not do his own peer reviewed research on the topic), his argument against it is extremely likely to be wrong. So, for all practical purposes, it can be safely dismissed."
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