Media, Information and Technoculture 1025F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Linus Pauling, Cardiology, Cittern

• School: Western University
• Department: Media, Information and Technoculture
• Course: Media, Information and Technoculture 1025F/G
• Professor: Paul Benedetti

Document Summary

Informal fallacies are a formal name for bad arguments. They are fallacies that have poor reasoning either the reasons do not support the conclusion, or the relationship between premises and conclusions is weak and defective. Relying on the opinion of someone deemed to be an expert who in fact is not an expert . There are specifically four kinds of appeal to authority: appeal to celebrity: a common fallacy occurring when people believe in the advice of celebrities blindly. For example, katie perry showed her daily pills and people wanted to take the same kind solely because katie perry took them as well: misplaced or transferred authority: meaning an expert in one area claims expertise in another. A real-life example is linus pauling who won the nobel. For instance, dr. oz is a legitimate doctor specialized in cardiology but talks about healthy diet: where the expert"s opinion is marginal or unrepresentative of the majority opinion.