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Appeal to Unqualified Authority
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Citing an authority outside their competence, or one whose reliability is compromised.
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A celebrated physicist endorsing a diet plan. Fame doesn't transfer between fields.
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Near-miss: citing *qualified* authority in-domain is not a fallacy — it's how finite beings know most of what they know.