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Originally posted by UFOGlobe
... Do you realize you are making an "argument from authority"? You are "appealing to authority".... Not only is that a logical fallacy, but it pretty much destroys all of your credibility.
This fallacy is committed when the person in question is not a legitimate authority on the subject. More formally, if person A is not qualified to make reliable claims in subject S, then the argument will be fallacious.
If there is a significant amount of legitimate dispute among the experts within a subject, then it will be fallacious to make an Appeal to Authority using the disputing experts.
Astronomer Luis Barrera from the Metropolitan University of Sciences in Chile, who has an asteroid named after him, was one of eight highly skeptical scientists who analyzed the footage. He was able to rule out a meteoroid, pieces of meteors or comets, space junk, a bird or an airplane.
Chilean Air Force General (Ret.) Ricardo Bermúdez is the Director of the Committee of Studies of Anomalous Aerial Phenomenon (CEFAA), the Chilean government’s official organization for the study of unknown aerial phenomena. General Bermúdez has also been the Director of the Technical School of Aeronautics, the School of Engineers, and the sub-Director of Chile’s Air Force Academy. At CEFAA, he leads a group of scientists at the doctorate level, who form the committee along with aviation experts from the General Directorate of Civil Aeronautics. General Bermúdez is a former fighter pilot, served as an air attaché in London, and commanded the Third Air Brigade in southern Chile.
Originally posted by UFOGlobe
There already is experts saying it's nothing out of the ordinary. You don't see me going around saying, "OMG IT'S NOT A UFO BECAUSE THESE PEOPLE SAYS SO!". That is just idiotic and mindless.
Originally posted by TeaAndStrumpets
I'm confused...
Originally posted by TeaAndStrumpets
because, unlike the scientists and CEFAA officials that other people have cited, those 'experts' that YOU cite as dissenters couldn't possibly have seen all of the videos from the various angles, right? So why are you giving their opinion any weight?
Originally posted by tagasbob
Now are you saying that the Chilean military would be so dumb as to ask a professional in an unrelated field for analysis of a video like this?
Originally posted by tagasbob
Astronomer Luis Barrera from the Metropolitan University of Sciences in Chile, who has an asteroid named after him, was one of eight highly skeptical scientists who analyzed the footage. He was able to rule out a meteoroid, pieces of meteors or comets, space junk, a bird or an airplane.
Astrologers who have been able to discover asteroids are probably a pretty good source for objective UFO analysis, wouldn't you agree?
Originally posted by tagasbob
Why do you assume these people are idiots?
Originally posted by tagasbob
You're not paying attention.
Exactly. Your mind is already made up, regardless of the rest of the evidence. You win I guess....
Originally posted by UFOGlobe
It doesn't matter what the other videos show.
Obviously....
The video that was made public shows what are obviously flying insects.
Your logic is air-tight. Some might even say impenetrable.
That just means the other videos will probably also show flying insects.