fallacies

It probably goes by another name, but I saw an article about this recently, but I didn't jot down the link, and now I can't find it. The context is Sweden's pandemic strategy and how the authorities refused to acknowledge the efficacy of face masks, arguing that no study lived up to their high...

You don't have a degree in X therefore you must be wrong about X I am almost positive that this fits into Ad-hominem, but is it also appeal to authority and/or something else?

There was a post like this made on another forum, but since I can't re-post the content, I'm posting a new version. The examples shown here can apply to any cryptid, not just Bigfoot. Top 5 Skeptical Fallacies 1) Appeal to Ignorance "After thousands of years of being on the continent, we...

I had not run across this particular fallacy before. I really enjoyed the example of it given in the Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/If_by_whisky "This is my stand. I will not retreat from it. I will not compromise."

I didn't know where to put a logic/debate/fallacy question so here it is in the "science" section. I know that in a logical argument, the people bringing the argument to the table should be irrelevant and the argument or position itself should be able to stand on its own. But is there ever a...