Define works. Appeal to authority destroys engineering, scientific, critical thinking and decision making. You can't appeal to authority your way into subject experts, they might even openly criticize you for your bullshit.
> You can't appeal to authority your way into subject experts, they might even openly criticize you for your bullshit.
They might, and they might also ignore you without a source because they are so focused on discrediting everyone thats not themselves.
> Define works.
Gets people to more quickly agree with your line of reasoning, by masquerading your line of reasoning as a non-independent thought and simply finding something that agrees with you on Google.
I know that search engines mostly just agree with you. Other people don't.
Appeal to authority is a tool. Whether it improves or worsens things depends on how it is wielded.