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Re:Covid-19 update and guidance to limit spread by senthil_rajasek on Tuesday March 10, 2020 @04:39PM (#22539436)
I was right.

You seem confused.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/credentialism

"belief in or reliance on academic or other formal qualifications as the best measure of a person's intelligence or ability to do a particular job."

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Re:Covid-19 update and guidance to limit spread by samatman on Tuesday March 10, 2020 @05:11PM (#22539748)
It's also accepting a weak argument because of the credentials of the author. I thought that was trivially understood, but I guess not.

Which is also not what you're doing; your case appears to be that credentials are a reason to reject a sound explanation or argument, which is absurd.

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Re:Covid-19 update and guidance to limit spread by senthil_rajasek on Tuesday March 10, 2020 @05:30PM (#22539935)
Now you are bringing in your own narrative to a dictionary definition. My case is that the parent comment seems to put credentials before a valid argument, which is what I am against. Credentials are not a proxy for a sound argument.
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Re:Covid-19 update and guidance to limit spread by samatman on Tuesday March 10, 2020 @05:48PM (#22540109)
Dictionaries aren't weapons.
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Re:Covid-19 update and guidance to limit spread by senthil_rajasek on Tuesday March 10, 2020 @08:33PM (#22541651)
Dictionaries are references to look up words before opening mouths.
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