From: "Dr. Rocktor" <drr@in.valid>
Newsgroups: alt.global-warming,alt.fan.rush-limbaugh,can.politics,alt.atheism,sci.skeptic,alt.politics.democrats
Subject: Re: Alan "Rich Kid" Baker, Knows EVERYTHING!
Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2025 11:56:00 -0700
Organization: A noiseless patient Spider
On Sun, 7 Dec 2025 14:03:49 -0500
JTEM <jtem01@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 12/7/25 12:43 PM, Ken wrote:
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> > With such a narrow focus, how can they possibly have any expertise
> > on climate? They would be more knowledgeable if they forgot what
> > they've allegedly learned and went back to get liberal arts
> > degrees, like poets, businessmen, lawyers or politicians. We
> > should never trust doctors or specialists for the same reason.
> > Anyone who specializes in anything has no credibility. =20
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> It's called an "Appeal to Authority," and it's a fallacious argument.
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> fal=C2=B7=E2=80=8Bla=C2=B7=E2=80=8Bcious f=C9=99-=CB=88l=C4=81-sh=C9=99s
> Synonyms of fallacious
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> : embodying a fallacy
> a fallacious conclusion
> a fallacious argument
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> : tending to deceive or mislead : delusive
> =E2=80=A6 false and fallacious hopes =E2=80=A6=E2=80=94
> Conyers Middleton
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> Your "Position" would not be acceptable on a high school debating
> team, not actually constituting any real "Argument."
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> What happens is that stupid and/or dogmatic people have an emotional
> need to support/defend a position, but lack the intellect to
> challenge ideas presented, deconstruct arguments and verify claims
> of fact. So they don't bother. Instead, they engage in a "Fallacious"
> argument.
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> Gwobull Warbling is a hoax. And just one fact alone is enough for
> the emotionally stable to see this fact: This make pretend "Climate
> Science" only ever compares the Holocene to itself, and even then it
> only ever compares to closely related points within the post
> industrial era to themselves.
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> Now you don't know what I just said, much less why that excludes
> AGW "Science" from actually being science, but that's what makes you
> so funny.
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> You're hilarious!
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