(August 25, 2012 at 10:13 pm)teaearlgreyhot Wrote: [quote='Lion IRC' pid='327049' dateline='1345944464']
Pointing out to someone that they stand in direct conflict with the prevailing, majority, expert, informed opinion on a given matter is NOT a logical fallacy per se.
It is simply a challenge put upon that person to demonstrate why THEIR opinion is a more reasonable position than that of the experts by whom they are out-numbered.
And you cannot excuse yourself from that challenge by simply chanting "logical fallacy/appeal to authoritylogical fallacy/appeal to authoritylogical fallacy/appeal to authority" over and over again like some get-out-of-jail-free card.
How about the Jesus mythers step away from the logical fallacy auto-cue screen and get stuck into the hard details of the prevailing, majority, expert position instead?