>>11335064>Don't dare question science. You will be attacked by its proponents with a religious vigour.Correction: You are just wasting everybody's time by questioning things you have no grasp of.
Appeal to authority is a fallacy among peers.
>professor X says that professor Y's results are wrong because the famous professor Z says those results are impossible. That would be a fallacy.
Just because some retard wrote down his opinion, doesn't mean that it is as valid as the work of generations of scientists who dedicated their whole life to the research of that topic.
When dealing with people who are simply not educated enough, appeal to authority is the only thing that is left. Because what else are you going to do? Copy paste whole textbooks?
Fundamentally it's an ego problem.
>I never studied the field in any serious manner, but hey I have this opinion. And it's probably a better explanation than all the research available. 
