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A specialist in the area could just say “appeal to authority” and they’d be right. The actual peer reviewed articles and books would require evidence.
But those articles and books wouldn’t be accessible to the average reader.
So the journalist is summarizing those arguments, but in the process reducing them to an appeal to authority - which is completely fine.
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A specialist in the area could just say “appeal to authority” and they’d be right. The actual peer reviewed articles and books would require evidence.
But those articles and books wouldn’t be accessible to the average reader.
So the journalist is summarizing those arguments, but in the process reducing them to an appeal to authority - which is completely fine.