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 Originally Posted by MadMojoMonkey
For someone who seems to detest hearing an appeal to authority coming from anyone else, you sure do try to buoy your opinions by noting that someone else said it before you did.
Other than that, how does pair of videos not just scream to you that both of these guys are picking and choosing their facts to fit their preconceived agendas?
These are basically propaganda videos. There is no thoroughness to their points. They throw out a laughably shallow interpretation of what facts they do site.
An appeal to authority is when you claim something is true because an authority says so. It's not when you listen to credible opinions. I don't consider it a failure to listen to experts when they discuss the subjects in which they have expertise.
Sowell is a highly renowned economist and Friedman is one of the most renowned economists of all time. Listening to them talk economics is no different than listening to Feynman and Tyson talk physics.
The "shallowness" of their explanations are no greater than the shallowness of any of your favorite scientists when presenting in the popular media. Nobody's providing rigorous proofs and data in these things. They're presenting the theory in palatable slices, not showing you how academia has come to consider the theory the theory. Besides, it's not like you guys would rather spend hundreds of hours reading economic literature.
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