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by dorkmind 1834 days ago
> If you look at the level of public interest, then I think it becomes important to actually look into these things

This argument actually works on hormonal teens...as for everyone else, I think this is called ad populum or something, at any rate the appeal to popularity.

A logical fallacy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argumentum_ad_populum