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[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 16 points 1 day ago

You're arguing against numbers published by Harvard. None of what I said is "Kool-Aid." Secondly, using publicly funded information is not an "appeal to authority," saying someone knows xyz because they are a specialist in something is an appeal to authority (and that isn't a fallacy).