They all appeal to the word of someone whom the listener trusts rather than evidence itself. This was an awkward sentence. Here's a better way of putting it: these definitions create a false distinction by exempting 'appeals to expertise'. I searched "appeal to authority" on google again today, wit...

Brian Williams, Los Angeles's "deputy mayor of public safety", is the man in charge of the Los Angeles Fire Department. about three weeks ago, he was placed on administrative leave for allegedly calling in a bomb threat to city hall. [...] here is an interview with mayor Karen Bass where she says l...

Clownish nonsense. I despise twitter.

I'm not sure what to make of this obscure story.

Look at a map of Amsterdam; bikes and cars are on entirely different circuits of roads that do not cross thanks to car bridges. The half-assed mess of bike lanes in America are a sloppy compromise for keeping bikes away from automobiles. Only worse are bike lanes in the UK. I'd call the way SF hand...

One ought to ignore the sources that influence Wikipedia - at least those providing Wikipedia's political/social content, which Wikipedia launders as public consensus. The sources for en.Wikipedia range from old editions of the Encyclopedia Britannica and a Catholic encyclopedia from the late 19th ...

One ought to ignore the sources that influence Wikipedia - at least those providing Wikipedia's political/social content, which Wikipedia launders as public consensus.

Bike lanes serve no purpose.

https://www.sheldonbrown.com/physically ... lanes.html

You shouldn't underestimate the grammatical point.

One final note just to drive the point home: The media uses the passive voice because it permits looser, more open-ended language. Just as wikipedia uses loosely-defined policy so that users cannot call them out for breaking their own rules, politicians make their promises and hold their debates in ...