Fraudulent Appeal to Authority

They count on you not actually clicking the link and seeing that there is no evidence for their claims, at least not from the source they claim.

I made this graphic for my post on Fraudulent Appeal to Authority, which happens all the time with pandemic related claims on social media either about the disease itself, the vaccines, and especially pseudoscience based treatments.

Fraudulent Appeal to Authority. The tactic of citing sources that don’t actually back up a claim. Upside down smiley emoji. they hope you won’t even look and won’t examine their silly document dump.

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